I, Amb. Alvan is a living witness to the bad state of this ROAD......Imo Women Threaten To Go Unclad Over Failed Roads

Residents of Nekede, Eziobodo and Ihiagwa communities in Owerri
West Local Government Area of Imo State have threatened to go
Unclad in protest over the terrible condition of roads in the area.
The aggrieved villagers, who were mostly women, said they would
take to the street to protest what they called government’s
indifference to the plight of the people, saying the three
communities had been cut off from the entire state.
They said despite the fact that the communities jointly played host
to two federal tertiary institutions namely Federal Polytechnic,
Nekede and Federal University of Technology, and other Federal
Government’s institutions, with the attendant high vehicular
movements, the federal and the state governments have remained
non-challant to the people’s ordeal.
Speaking with journalists, spokesperson of the women, Lady
Mariam Oziri, said: “We decided to do something absurd to attract
the attention of the insensitive government and if nothing is done,
we will mobilize women and march Unclad to the Government
House.
“We are tired of excuses every year. The state government has
been playing hide and seek with one contractor who was said to
have been awarded the contract by the previous administration
and each year the road continues to deteriorate and this has
affected commerce and exposed residents to untold hardship.”
Lady Oziri said the deplorable condition of the roads had forced
motorists to hike transport fares thereby multiplying the woes of
the people, especially students of the two higher institutions in the
area.
The construction of the Nekede-Ihiagwa Road was earlier engulfed
in controversy as the contractor, Hadel and Enic, dragged the state
government to court when Governor Rochas Okorocha revoked the
contract.
However, the contractor had severally denied reports that the
pending suit was responsible for the delay in the construction of
the road.
An inside source in the Government House, who pleaded
anonymity, told Daily Sun that the contract for the construction of
the road had been awarded, adding that work would commence on
the road immediately after the rains.