Special Report: Inside Abia's Broken Roads
The house also urged the state government to mandate the Abia State Road Maintenance Agency to apply some palliatives on the failed portions of the roads, pending the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the roads by the federal government. The house listed the dilapidated roads in the state to include the Umuahia-Ikwuano Road, Umuahia-Bende Road and Ohafia-Arochukwu Road, among others.
PREMIUM TIMES’ checks across the state showed that many of the roads said to have been renovated by the agency are in terrible conditions. On the Ogbor Hill end of Ikot-Ikpene Road, there are huge craters and dungeon-like potholes on both sides of the road. When PREMIUM TIMES visited the area, residents and commercial transport workers complained bitterly of the poor state of the road. The same was the situation at Opopo Junction as well as roads in Obingwa area. A short distance from the dilapidated Ikot-Ikpene road lies NDDC’s Aba Office, located along the Park-Ogbor Hill Road.
“Since the state government has shown no sign of competence even in its own areas, only an agency with a deep purse like NDDC can fix this road if we have the right set of people in power,” Sunday Abrahams, a businessman and policy analyst based in Aba told PREMIUM TIMES during a tour of the road. Mr Abraham explained that the road has become terribly bad that the state government can do little to fix it.
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