I am beginning to hate media for promoting falsehood

What is happening with the traffic and roads in the South-East? Anambra State’s particularly is heartrending.

 Let me narrate my experience last Friday in Awka, the state capital, to give you a tip of the iceberg. The distance from my office to my home takes 15 minutes’ drive normally. I left my office around 6 p.m. on Friday because I had a series of ‘chocky deadlines’, so I had to stay back late to write.

Immediately, I left the university premises, I was greeted with heavy traffic at Agu Awka-GRA. We had chains of heavy-duty vehicles and cars. The traffic lingered for hours and I managed to ‘slot-drive’ out of the heavily congested road ridden with gullies and potholes.

When I got to Kwata, I met another traffic with huge trailers on the left and right sides. I had to turn towards Unizik Junction. This is away from the route to my home. There, again, I met another traffic, up through Abakiliki Street. I kept the rigmarole. Meanwhile, I was going into town but I found myself heading back the way to my office from where I came from. I went through Juhel, Roban and stadium down to Aroma Junction.

 Again, I was confronted with another heavy traffic. Meanwhile, it was raining heavily. I broke down in tears because the trailers this time were uncountable. I had to start calling my husband to come to help me out. I got home around 10 pm for a journey that was supposed to take just 15 minutes.

The Amansea area of this so-called Federal Government road is filled with gullies not just potholes, yet on the recent visit of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to Imo State, the Onitsha-Enugu road was declared COMPLETED on many media platforms. Then, in the next election, candidates would start campaigning with the same supposedly COMPLETED Onitsha-Enugu road. Is this not an irony?