The perennial delays witnessed in the reconstruction of the failed Calabar-Uyo federal highway have taken a toll on the health and resources of motorists, travellers and even residents of the road.
In the last two months, there have been vehicular breakdowns which compounded traffic snarls on the road as it has been for over ten years. As a result, travellers have often spent five or six hours to Uyo from Calabar or from Calabar to Uyo in a journey that used to be one hour. Over three weeks ago, following this heartrending and tortuous journey on this road, the Minister of Works, David Umahi took journalists to assess the extent of failures on the road.
He said hundreds of trucks bearing bags of cement, granites, rods and other heavy objects often fall due to the terrible state of the road. 'And when this happens, traffic flow is blocked. Long queues of trucks and other vehicles would be seen and the health of passengers are usually threatened having spent hours on bad spots', he said.
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