Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has promised to complete the remaining section of the Etche-Igbodo road in Etche Local Government Area following outcries by residents.
The governor after inspecting the road observed its deplorable state and vowed to urgently commence work to complete the road.
A statement by the governor’s Special Assistant, Media, Boniface Onyedi, said Fubara visited the area on Tuesday in response to complaints from residents in Umuohie-Igbodo communities.
The governor was said to have driven on the entire stretch of the bad section to the Okpala community of Imo State to assess the condition of the bad section and the level of work required to complete it.
He acknowledged that the immediate past administration did a great job when it reconstructed the Etche-Igbodo road and observed that the deplorable section was not completed then and had become a problem for residents and commuters.
He said: “We got this complaint that a section of the Etche-Igbodo road that was not completed is creating a very big problem for the residents here.
“So, I know that the previous administration did a very great job here, so I came myself to see what the problem is and from what I’m seeing here, it’s really a problem.
“We, as a government we see what we can do immediately to complete this section so that there will be very easy traffic along this route.
“It’s really bad, you can see that. I wonder how these people manage during raining season because if we are in dry season, it is bad this way then it must be terrible during the raining season. So we will do something about it immediately”.
