Various security checkpoints mounted by the army and police on the
dilapidated old Enugu/Onitsha expressway are compounding the woes of travelers who spend several hours on the Ugwuoba/Enugu axis and
Amansea/Anambra borders to other parts of the country.
According to The Guardian checks, commuters now spend two to three
hours on the Oji River/Ugwuoba and Amansea/Anambra borders, which
ordinarily should not take less than 20 minutes.
Since major parts of the highways collapsed, travelers to Enugu from
Lagos, Benin, Asaba and Onitsha found the old Enugu/Onitsha road as an
alternative.
Although the Ugwuoba/Enugu boundary axis was given a face-lift last
year by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, it collapsed almost
immediately due to heavy traffic and substandard delivery.
Articulated vehicles that also use it as alternative compounded the situation.
The parlous state of the road trapped a deputy governor from the
South East, who was returning to his state last Friday, despite his
siren-blaring convoy.
Efforts by his security details to clear the road failed and he had
to spend over two hours with other travellers around the Oji
River-Ugwuoba axis.
George Obi, a lawyer, who was returning to Enugu last Saturday from
Lagos, told The Guardian yesterday: “I spent more than one hour at
Asaba, but that was expected because of the usual traffic jam at the
Niger Bridge in Onitsha.
“But getting to Ugwuoba, it was like a war scene with so much
confusion, as different vehicles struggled for passage on the narrow
road. The security checkpoints compounded the situation. The security
officials narrowed a part of the road with only one vehicle allowed to
cross at a time.”
He called the authorities to do something urgently to salvage the road before yuletide.
Deputy national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu,
in a statement over the weekend urged the Federal Government to repair
major highways in the zone to ease vehicular traffic.
He noted the pains the people were made to pass through due to bad
roads, stressing that good roads in the zone would help the country’s
economy.
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