[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he decision of Gov. Okowa (SMART AGENDA)to create the Delta Capital Territory Development Agency, DCTDA, 27years after its creation, was an indication that the state capital has not attained the status it ought to have attained in terms of infrastructure and living conditions of the citizens in the capital city. That was why the state government created an agency to give it that bite and focus, but the reverse was the case of this agency headed by Chief Clement Ofuani as they have failed us. Deltans are calling on Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa to sack this body for non performance.
The ever-busy Ezenei Avenue junction link to the Onitsha /Asaba Expressway is now a death trap,as motorists who ply the road declared protest to draw feudal state government’s attention to its poor state.Motorists and passengers press home their anger against state government’s alleged nonchalant attitude towards its repair.
Following the pressure of heavy car movement, impacts of climate change, poor maintenance of Road, fear of road failure, automobile accidents have become “playmates of motorists”, and motorists plying the ever busy Ezenei Avenue link to expressway.
Motorists plying Ezenei Avenue take risk everyday driving on top of the failed portions with fear, several persons have been killed as a result of the failed portion, what is Delta Capital Territory Development Agency, DCTDA doing to the dangerous Portion; we will continue to protest until government repairs the road”. Worried by the alleged lukewarm attitude reportedly exhibited by the agency, toward addressing the impending doom, dangling, tongues have started wagging, as Deltans, plying the road tongue lash Delta Capital Territory Development Agency, DCTDA and the State Government Ministry of work for alleged insensitivity toward employing proactive measures swiftly to address the deadly situation.
Investigation revealed that deep potholes litter the Ezenei Avenue,especially the entrance from Onitsha/Asaba expressway where they have been hue and cry of deaths and incessant accident cases recorded. But when our reporter visited the Delta Capital Territory Development Agency, DCTDA office,in Asaba, for its comment on the poor condition of some of the Capital Territory roads across, the Director-General in charge of the agency was not on seat.
In spite of the hue and cry which greeted the series of bloody accidents recorded on the portion everyday, we call on
the state government to repair the deadly potholes, especially, the fast development flooded portion, reportedly
responsible for series of accidents, DCTDA has allegedly kept mum.
Grassroots Publishers online,however, pleads with the Delta State Government to declare state of Emergence on this deadly Spot at Ezenei Avenue junction, by employing temporary measures, such as filling this embarassing spot with stones because if the situation was not swiftly given attended to, automobile-related accidents will claim many more lives and property.
As the condition of the road becomes more deplorable following the rapid development of many dangerous spots, especially, the fast developing flooding on the road,Deltans have called on state government to employ proactive measures to avert further loss of lives and property along the road.
By: Ike Abiagom