Enugu Onitsha express road, is the major
road that leads to many States in east such as Enugu, Ebonyi, Cross River,
River state, Abia and Imo state.
The shortest route to ply while
traveling or coming back from Lagos, Abuja, all the trucks that transport goods
to and from to the above-mentioned States apply the road.
The popular 9th mile water tanker
suppliers have no other preferable road to apply but the same road.
Very funny enough that for the past
five years the same road that serves as the only eye that is owning the head
has been abandoned to the worst deplorable state by the Enugu state government
and the federal government of Nigeria.
The same road that the formal
governor of Enugu state Barr. Sullivan Chime apply to his home at UDI, it is
the same road the incumbent governor of Enugu state Chief Dr. Hon. Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi AKA Gburugburu plies to his NSUKKA home.
Many companies that generate millions
of naira to the account of Enugu state government are located at this same 9th
mile, where the road cut across and companies that generate billions of naira
to the account of Federal government of Nigeria are located at the same 9th
mile.
The largest brewery company in Africa
is located at the same 9th mile, talking about the gigantic Nigeria brewery
PLC.
Record shows that not a month has
come and gone without the occurrence of a fatal accident that will claim lives
and property worth millions on the same axis of the road.
The road according to the
harmonization of roads in the contraption of Nigeria federation ought to be
constructed by the federal government of Nigeria, but nothing has been done
about it, thereby claiming the lives of the innocent citizens of Biafrans and
their goods worth millions frequently.
On the abandonment of the road by the
federal government of Nigeria, the Enugu state government ought to have given
the attention to the road, because it is of a great need to the entire people
of Biafra particularly the indigenes of Enugu state.
In the month of April and August 2018
alone, about twenty different accident occurred along the road and two trucks
of Dangote fully loaded cement was among, a truck loaded with watermelon
equally ran into potholes and fell inside the bush, not even a bag of the cement
or one of the watermelons was recovered. on frequent bases, trucks of loaded
Nigeria brewery drinks set for delivery involves in accidents as a result of
the bad condition of the road and not a single bottle will be recovered, A tank
loaded with crude oil fall and spilled off still on same road between the
interval of April and August, 2018.
You will hardly pass through the road
without seeing one or two broke down trucks or vehicle either in the middle of
the same road or manage to be packed by the roadside. This is a significant of
a failed government.
Still on the above space of time, a
fatal accident that claimed the lives of the entire family of seven persons
including father, mother and children occurred at the same road, what a sad
and pathetic story.
Not minding the downhill road
deplorable conditions, trucks, buses and other private cars struggle over one
lane, because the other lane has damaged beyond management.
Many daily road users especially the
truck drivers and water tanker suppliers within and outside Enugu state, that ply
the route which has no option than to manage the road are calling on the
government of concerned for quick intervention on the deplorable conditioned
road as to save lives and property.
Written by:
Ogeh Friday Igiri
For: Ebonyi State Media
(Abakaliki province)
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