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| A bad road in Nigeria |
The people of Nekede, Eziobodo and Ihiagwa communities in Owerri West local Government Area of Imo State have threatened to go on hunger strike over the deplorable condition of roads in the area.
The aggrieved villagers, mostly women, also threatened to protest naked if the Federal and state governments continued to neglect the residents, saying that the communities had been cut off from the rest of the state.
According to the people, though the communities jointly host two federal tertiary institutions, the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede and the Federal University of Technology and other Federal Government institutions, the state and Federal governments have neglected them.
The women’s spokesperson, Mrs. Eunice Chima, said: “Since the government decided to be insensitive we will mobilise women and march naked to the Government House.
“We are tired of excuses each year. The state government has been playing hide and seek with one contractor who was said to have been awarded the contract by the previous administration and each year the road continues to deteriorate and this has affected commerce and exposed the residents to untold hardship.”
With the deplorable condition of the roads, motorists have also hiked transport fares thereby multiplying the woes of the people, especially students of the two higher institutions in the area.
The fare from Ihiagwa to Owerri which used to be N100 is now N200 while Owerri to Polytechnic is now N150 from N50. The construction of the Nekede – Ihiagwa Road was earlier engulfed in crisis as the contractor, Hadel and Enic, sued the state government when the contract was revoked by Governor Rochas Okorocha.
However, the contractor had denied reports that the pending suit was responsible for the delay in the construction of the road.
But a source close to the Government House disclosed that the contract for the construction of the road had been awarded, adding that work would commence immediately after the rains.
source: nigerianeye
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