RAYMOND OZOJI reports
The Anambra State Government has commenced the construction of a 700 metres road at St. Gerald's Avenue Aborji village Oba in Idemili-South Local Government Area of the state.
The road project which was attracted and flagged off for construction by the Executive Mayor of Idemili-South Rt. Hon. Mrs. Iyom Amaka Obi is expected to be completed within two months inorder to alleviate the sufferings of the inhabitants of Aborji village who have encountered difficulties accessing their homes due to the deplorable conditions of the road.
Speaking at the official flagg-off ceremony last weekend, the Mayor of Idemili-South Rt. Hon. Mrs. Iyom Amaka Obi underscored the importance of the road to Aborji village and to the entire Oba community, stressing that the road is very strategic such that it is a major road connecting over 30 estates in the area.
Obi who thanked Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo for extending his road revolution to communities like Aborji village Oba, said that the governor is proactively responding to the infrastructural needs of the state to make it a liveable, loveable and prosperous homeland for all and sundry.
Meanwhile representative of C-Success Multi-Services Limited and project manager of St. Gerald's road construction work Engr. Obinna Akolonye, said the road project is a standard work of the Solution Government, noting that all roads constructed under the current administration is expected to last atleat 20 years. He said the road has drainages on both sides and it is being constructed in line with government standards.
The project manager noted that the standard of government on road construction is stone-base before asphalting which he said is what they are applying on St. Gerald's road Aborji village Oba.
According to him, the road is important to Aborji village because it is a central road that leads to Onitsha-Owerri federal highway. He also stated that there are over 30 estates inside Aborji village and that St. Gerald's road is a major entrance to the estates even as he equally pointed out that the road in question connects the estates to Akwa-Ukwu, Oraifite and other communities on the Onitsha-Owerri axis, adding that the economic value of the road can not be overemphasized.
Engr. Akolonye who was cognisant of the fact that the problem of Anambra State has been road infrastructure, said that in less than 4 years of the Soludo administration, Anambra has become something else in road construction such that virtually every community in the state is experiencing rapid road work sponsored by the state governor Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
Akolonye noted that road revolution in Anambra State has gotten to a stage where one is compelled to ask the question of how and where does the governor get the money he deploys in executing the projects without incurring debts.
The contractor also disclosed that St. Gerald's road has not been asphalted since the state was created and that the occupants of Aborji village have been complaining bitterly about difficulties associated with using the road due to its very dilapidated and deplorable nature.
He was however of the opinion that with the intervention of the Anambra State Government, the inhabitants of Aborji village will heave a sigh of relief from long suffering now that the road is being constructed.
President-General of Oba community, Chief Anthony Ejiofor in his few remarks, commended Iyom Amaka Obi for attracting the state government to St. Gerald's road and ensuring commencement of the construction works. The PG said it gives the people of Oba community immense pleasure to see that the road is being constructed because they have sufferred untold hardships on account of the very deplorable state of the road.
He said that the governor has put smiles on the faces of Oba people especially those residing in the estates because St. Gerald's road is a major link to their homes and resilience while expressing profound gratitude and appreciation to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo and the Idemili-South Mayor Iyom Amaka Obi for remembering Aborji village with the construction of a 700 metres road in the area to ameliorate as well as alleviate the sufferings of the people due to bad road.
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