Residents of various Imo communities lament the impact of the abandoned road projects on their lives.
Many roads in Imo State are littered with potholes, and prone to flood due to lack of proper drainage system. Unfortunately, these roads include those whose contracts had been awarded and payments made.The roads cause accidents and damage our machines , Mr Chibuike told this reporter as the duo prepares to journey from Bank Junction in Mbaise Local Government Area to Amachara in Ahiazu-Mbaise LGA.
According to an NDDC contracting document made available to the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism , over the last four years, at least N5.1 billion was budgeted for projects in Imo State by the commission. Out of this sum, N3.8 billion was allocated for roads and bridges. “The only route now they are taking is the other way round. This is a link from Aba to Enugu to Okigwe. Even vehicles going to Lagos pass through here to link Orlu but because of the bad road, nobody is passing through here and the business is not moving. I come out here from morning till night, nothing is moving.”
But three years after the contract for the road was awarded, the road is still a nightmare to its users. Although the Ihitte/Uboma local government secretariat is situated along the road, no attention has been given to it. Motorists say it is usually flooded during rainy seasons.“The dry season is an opportunity for them to fix the road but nothing is being done,” one of the motorists said.
“The problem is with the design of the road,” Mr Ajibola said. “Before construction, surveys need to be conducted on the road, then it needs to be properly designed. The survey and design would indicate that that location is a depression and as such the road would need to be raised and a culvert would be designed to accommodate the river flow.”“The reason why this problem is recurrent is because there was no design and they are just constructing it.
“But you cannot come up with a one-off solution for this without doing all necessary survey and designs. Most basic thing is to have a culvert to pass the streamflow underneath the road.”The Oguta Motel to Mgbele road is not the only poorly constructed road, many of the completed roads tracked by this reporter suffer one deficiency or the other. For some it was lack of drainage system, others it was that the drainage was poorly done.
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