By Sunday Egede
RESIDENTS of Obi Road (Dein Motor Way) in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State have appealed to the Delta State Government (DTSG) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to save them from impending ecological disaster posed by the state of the road.
The Chairman of Obi Road Landlords/Landladies Association, Mr. Gabriel Ekwuazom made the appeal on behalf of residents in the area during the association’s weekly meeting hosted by Mr. Emmanuel Igudia at his residence in the area recently.
Ekwuazom noted that the appeal had become necessary as it would tremendously go a long way in addressing the gully erosion that has ravaged the road.
According to him, the road has slowed down the tempo socio-economic activities in the entire Alibiauba community which, he said, was regarded as the ‘new Agbor’ because of the accelerated rate at which the area was developing.
He disclosed that with a population of about 21,700 people living in about 7,900 houses in the area, the whole of Alibiauba community needs better road network.
“As we are now at the middle of the rainy season, our children can hardly go to school and our women find it extremely difficult to go market whenever it rains for fear of being swept away by the rampaging floods accompanying the heavy torrential rainfall.
“It is absolutely regrettable to note that two children of same parents were swept away and killed by high volume of rampaging flood in the area in 2019”, the chairman stated.
While saying that the Dein Motor Way which begins from the Palace of the Agbor monarch was strategic and symbolic to the people of Agbor Kingdom, Ekwuazom reiterated the need for the state government and the NDDC to urgently come to the aid of the residents in the area by rehabilitating the road and other roads in Alibiauba Community before they (residents) are cut off from other parts of the state.
