Amansea-Ndiukwuenu-Mamu Road and the Shock of My Life

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By Valentine Obienyem

Each time I passed through the old Agu-Awka-Amansea Road, I thanked God for Amansea-Ndiukwuenu Road with a spur to Awgbu. As far as I was concerned, work was in progress because the road had been tarred from the major road about two years ago.

Today, on our way to Ebonyi for Mr. Peter Obi’s hospital-based COVID-19 palliatives, we encountered serious traffic jam at the dual carriage Awka – Enugu road and decided to take that road to Ufuma and thenceforth to Enugu State, believing the road would be free.

To my shock, the tarring was only less than 100 meters completed, from the major road. What It means is that they skillfully tarred just the entrance to the road, mounted a sign post deceiving passers-by to think that tarring is on-going.

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On the way, we passed through the site for the widely reported Amansea Abattoir, which the signing of its MoU was covered live by Channels and AIT about four years ago. Reported by them to be the biggest in Africa when completed, its completion time was estimated to be two years.

To my surprise, not even one block was seen at the proposed site already overtaken by weeds, grass, plants and trees.

The most shocking discovery is the fact that the road is still as Mr. Peter Obi left it. It was one of the last roads Mr. Obi awarded to a South-African company. Under Obi, some of the bridges on the road were already completed. The culvert was 90% done and earth work was near completion.

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The communities along the road paid Obi a courtesy visit towards the end of his tenure, thanked him for the project which they said was the greatest thing they were benefitting from Government since creation and assured him that they would support his candidate and that all they demand was that his candidate should complete the road.

Because the road had already been cut into two or seriously threatened by erosion at many points, we had to look for an alternative road.

It is clear that nothing has happened on the road since Obi left. The tarring from the major road is intended to deceive the people.

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In all this, I keep asking: how would the communities along that road be feeling? Would they not think it was Mr. Peter Obi that swindled them by promising them that his candidate would complete the road? Would some of them not wish to be excised from Anambra to Enugu state? Would some of them not rightly feel that the road has been forgotten?

It is because of the ever-presented possibility of these questions that I was compelled to publish this with pictures, hoping that the situation would still be rectified.

What are your thoughts?

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