Rep begs Buhari over Arochukwu/Ohafia road repair
The House of Representatives member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in Abia State, Hon. Uko Nkeole, at the weekend, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to repair the major road in the area – the Arochukwu/Ohafia federal road.
He said that the road had become a national and international embarrassment and an eye saw in a land that was the cradle of civilisation in Igbo land and a punishment to the people of the constituency.
The road, said Nkeole, who was opening his campaign office in Ohafia, had not been rehabilitated for over 40 years with the only one done under the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) era, under Buhari as its chairman.
The last contract to repair the road was awarded to a Port Harcourt-based construction company, which abandoned it under PTF agreement and called on Buhari, ‘who is an anti-corruption crusader”, to look into what had happened.
“It is very, very wrong and bad in spite of fighting corruption, that under his watch, then, a contract was awarded and the job was never executed and, today, he is back as President and we hope that by the time he calls the contractor back, the road would be done.
Nkeole told newsmen that he had made efforts to see that he road was accommodated in the federal budget and pleaded with the president to assent to it.
He, however, lamented thus: “What happens these days is more of politics and that is why I should call on the President to make sure he becomes a father to all and not a political President of a particular political party whether we voted for him or not. The most important thing is that he has emerged as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and his conduct and acts must be seen to reflect that status of a national father”.
He said that he had offered his several portable water projects at various stages of completion, with some at over 70%, school projects, particularly that of Ndanku community, in Ohafia, with no single school for over 100 years, where he, in partnership with Canadians, provided the community with the first school.
