HOW DID WE OFFEND AFIKPO NORTH COUNCIL CHAIRMAN, BARR. OBIAGERI OKO ENYIM?
AJM NEWS
The attached photo shows the present state of the abandoned Uji Ndibe Bridge, leading to the popular Ndibe Beach in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Nkpoghoro community, Enohia Nkalu and other road users who ply the Ndibe Beach route were managing this road until the council Chairman and her team came and destroyed the culvert at Uji, with the promise of constructing a standard bridge.
Up till this very moment, the Chairman has not deemed it necessary to hasten the construction of this bridge, even as the Christmas season is fast approaching.
The kind of stress and difficulties our people will go through using the Water Works Road (which is now the only alternative route) during the Yuletide and new year seasons would be unimaginable, if the Uji Bridge is not fixed now.
Moreover, the Water Works Road is not meant to carry the kind of very heavy loads it’s carrying now; if nothing is done speedily to save the situation, that very bridge at Water Works will collapse, by then Church Agbasa!
As I write now, all the businesses located around the Uji Ndibe axis have died completely; shop owners in the area have locked up their shops because nothing is happening there any longer. By January, these same people that the Chairman has indirectly thrown out of business will still source for money to pay their landlords, to avoid being ejected from their shops.
Honestly, the punishment that the people of Nkpoghoro and other road users have gone through because of this ‘demolished and abandoned’ Uji Bridge is enough to make the council Chairman have pity on the people and take decisive action towards completing the project, no matter how painful it may be to her. Even if it means borrowing money, let her go and borrow to fix the bridge, it would give her honour at last.
Finally, what we cannot take from the Chairman or any other politician(s) is deliberately delaying the completion of the project till campaign period, probably to use it as a platform for political cum election campaign. We cannot accept that!
Uji Ndibe Bridge should not be abandoned or politicised like Afikpo Light; let it be fixed now, the people have suffered enough!
By Rev.Pastor OTU OBIAHU
(Media Director, AJM NEWS)
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