Hon. Chief Edward Ubochi, Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly |
A member representing
Nsukka East constituency, Hon. Chinedu
Nwamba, of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the said motion sponsored by
him, called on the Federal Government to urgently rehabilitate the roads,
adding that residents in Enugu State and its environs, for over a decade, were
faced with innumerable problems owing to the terrible state of federal roads.
He continued: “It seems the state is forgotten in the areas of construction
of new roads, rehabilitation and maintenance of federal roads. Incidentally,
this ugly trend has persisted despite promises made by the successive federal
government regimes on the said roads. Among the roads in question are the
Port-Harcourt-Enugu and Onitsha-Enugu highways. The Enugu to Onitsha road,
which usually takes about 40 minutes in a journey when the road was in good
condition now takes three hours.
“The road is so
bad that almost every vehicle that plies it usually breaks down before
completing a full journey. On the Enugu-Port-Harcourt highway the story is the
same as the journey, which normally lasts for two hours is now five hours.”
Hon. Nwamba stated that the
bad condition of the roads was unsafe for Enugu inhabitants, adding that it
hampered economic, political and socio-cultural activities of the people, as
countless accidents had been recorded on the roads.
He added: “There appears to be porous security on those roads since
criminals use the opportunity of slow movement of vehicles to dispossess people
of their valuables.”
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