Amudo Community in Awka metropolis has embarked on self repair of urban roads in their Community to ease the difficulties experienced by road users in the area.
Some roads in Awka township have been in deplorable state since this year’s rainy season thereby harrowing experience to motorists and other road users lately.
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of the state had during a briefing to mark his 100 days in office last Saturday heaped the blame on delay in the passage of the reversed budget before the state assembly.
Chief Timothy Mmuotolo, Chairman, Amudo Community, Awka told journalists on Tuesday in Awka that his people resorted to self help to ease the sufferings of road users.
“Our brother, Mr Uchenna Ozoekwe, who based in Abuja came up with the idea that we should do something to ameliorate the sufferings of road users within our domain.
“That was what spurred the community to embark on the project considering the strategic location of our community in Awka township”, he said.
Mmuotolo added that Amudo Community is hosting both the state and federal secretariats, ‘B’ Division of Nigeria Police Force, part of the Government House, federal and state high courts as well as other Institutions.
He said if as a result of other pressing matters, the state government was unable to tackle the deplorable state of roads in the area that nothing was wrong for the people to give a helping hands.
Mmuotolo, however, used the medium to appeal to the state government to construct a hanging bridge from Water Board, Awka to Ifite Awka axis.
“Construction of hanging bridge at that location will end the problem of gridlock at Aroma junction end of Enugu/Onitsha expressway which most times affected travellers using that road to Enugu, Ebonyi and some states of the north”, he said.
Mr Ozoekwe, an Abuja-based business man and native of the community said he was concerned over the sufferings of people due to the deplorable state of roads across his community.
“As a grassroots person, I felt that it is the responsibility of every citizen to contribute his or her quota in making things work in our society.
“Leaving everything for Government to do at her own time is not the best because government’s time might not be suitable at all times to tackle certain pressing needs”, he said.
Ozoekwe explained that his Community was not hijacking the function of government, but was merely providing palliative pending when the state would repair the roads.
He called on other communities in Anambra and beyond to partner with government in anyway they could to address challenges of infrastructures.
