This is the road from Nkerefi to Amagunze (Nkanu East, Enugu State). There are many bad roads in Nigeria, you'll admit to that...
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| This is the road from Nkerefi to Amagunze (Nkanu East, Enugu State). |
There are many bad roads in Nigeria, you'll admit to that fact. If you travel by road most of the time, you'll understand that these bad roads delay your travel. Owing to these bad roads, there are debilitating hold-ups. A journey that you estimated for three hours might turn out to be six or even seven hours.
It gets annoying that it seems the government isn't making an effort to do anything to alleviate the suffering of the masses. In most cases, the poor conditions of these roads are a reason for accidents.
I remember while I was a corps member in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State in 2013, the road to the Secretariat was one of the worst roads in the whole of Ikeduru. It's just sad that the road; such an "important" road be rough. I remember taking a bike and swimming in the pool of water. Bike men used an alternate route that wasn't safe. Anyone could have been bludgeoned to their death on that risky pathway.
One day, while I was on a bike, I was talking with the bike man. He told me that the Governor's wife paid a visit to the secretariat. I was hopeful that finally, something would be done about the road. Until I left Ikeduru, the road remained like that: desolate and abandoned.
Whenever I had to travel from Imo to Rivers State, it was the same ol' story. Bad road. The way I knew we had arrived Rivers was that the road got better. Instead of spending about 20 minutes at Ohaji-Egbema, one could spend 45 minutes owing to the deplorable condition of the road.
Imo State isn't the only state in Nigeria with this Bad Road Syndrome (BRS). It's a pandemic!
It begs the question: "what are they doing with government Nigerians money?"
It's unfortunate that a country as rich and blessed as Nigeria should suffer at the hands of merciless, self-seeking leaders.
