Tag: Arthur Eze

T is only a blind man who will not attest to the fact that there is absence of Federal concern in the whole of South East region and Abia State in particular due to the fact that it is centrally located as a result of its geographical connectivity to the peripheries of neighbouring states.

This situation has remained static for quite sometime that we can no longer keep quiet because people of the South East have continued to suffer in silence for the fact that we purposefully remain loyal to Mr. President.

The fact that roads in Abia State have erroneously remained on the front burner is not only troubling but calls for immediate concern and attention by appropriate authorities. South East remains a major bloc of supporters in Jonathan’s administration and yet there is not much to write home about with respect to nature and status of federal infrastructures in the region.

The crux of this write up is to disprove the notion in circulation that Abia roads are bad, which is not the same thing as saying that roads in Abia are bad, because road users do not know the difference. In Abia State federal roads criss cross the length and breath of the landscape and not one is faultless to say it mildly. Beginning with Enugu, Port-Harcourt road which is almost a death trap that has constituted serious menace to the economy of the south east and Abia State in particular to the Arochukwu-Ohafia road for which attempts in its reconstruction by the Federal Government have been aborted by unscrupulous contractors, other federal roads in Abia are Aba to Ikot Ekpene express way via Ogbor Hill Aba, Ikot Ekpene to Umuahia via Ikwuano, Umuahia, Ohafia, Arochukwu to Ikot Ekpene/Itu/Calabar express roads.

The present administration of Chief T. A Orji has continued to toil in the turmoil of federally located infrastructure and rather than receive encomiums is being vilified by some uninformed and unpatriotic elements most of whom are in a better position to canvas for federal attention in the south east but rather than do that they choose to pass wrong judgment on a State which is struggling to come out of the woods due to long period of neglect by past administration because they would not like to be preserved as been confrontational with the federal authorities in order not to endanger their businesses at the cost of dilapidation of federal presence in the south east. The comments attributed to a businessman who visited Abia with respect to roads in the State is not only massively doctored to suite a media fit in Lagos owned by a sworn enemy of Abia who has been crying over spilt milk for long time now, but misdirected at the wrong target all in the bid to play to the gallery. In the past, honest evaluations of infrastructure which have been conducted in Abia have attested to the incontrovertible fact that the current Governor of Abia State has done very well in a formerly dry land where nothing existed than propaganda.

Today in the south east erosion has continued to ravage the environment thereby constituting fear and despair among the populace particularly in Anambra, Imo and Abia States but our so called leaders have turned a blind eye to it. It is no longer secret that the federal authority is selective in its road reconstruction projects which has tilted more to the North because it feels the Igbos can not raise an eye brow.

The State of federal roads in Abia is simply deplorable particular along Aba axis and the whole stretch of Arochukwu Ohafia roads for which the contractor is said to have absconded with the fund already available to him, and as such the so called businessman whose verbitude and character of speech is enmeshed in controversies can be more useful to the society by assessing correctly and reporting situations to the appropriate authorities to the benefit of the entire populace.