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Okorocha decries state of Port-Harcourt/Owerri RoadImo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has deplored the condition of the Umuapu, Imo State section of the Port-Harcourt-Owerri Express Road, stating that the road has become a death trap. Consequently, he has called on the Federal Government to urgently fix the road in order to save the lives of those plying the road.
Okorocha, who made the call yesterday, said it was disheartening that the firm contracted to handle a major project like the Port Harcourt / Owerri Road stopped work at the boundary between Rivers and Imo states, but added that he did not believe that the stoppage of work was political.
“I do not believe that the contractor stopping the road at Umuapu area, which is in Imo State, is political like it is being insinuated in some quarters, because all Nigerians, irrespective of their political affiliations, use the road. But it is avowedly regrettable that the contractor doing the road could get to Imo State side of the project and stopped work for quite a long time now.
“The attendant implication is that the area has become not only a nightmare but a death trap, so much that, Imo people now go to Port Harcourt through Aba in Abia State, which is also another story of itself. The Umuapu area in question is better seen than imagined and it is a Federal Government road. That is why some people are beginning to read political meaning into the whole scenario,” Okorocha lamented.
The governor said it was regrettable that those who represent the state at the National Assembly and other political appointees, who claim to be close to the Presidency, could not influence the completion of the road to save road users from untimely death.
His words: “The most annoying aspect of the whole story is that there are Imo sons and daughters in Abuja who claim to be very close to the Presidency or to the Federal Government and even those who claim to be power brokers at the National Assembly, and they could not influence anything with regard to the disturbing condition of the road under reference. And they pass through the road very often and none of them could muster the courage to talk about it.
It is important to remind Imo sons and daughters, who drop the name of Mr. President on every slightest issue, to bring that connection to bear by influencing things to ensure that the Umuapu side of Port Harcourt/Owerri Road is fixed without further delay to halt further deaths and armed robbery attacks on that side of the road.”
Governor Okorocha further stated that it was the same case with Aba/ Owerri Road until the Imo State government took it upon itself to fix the road.
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