Aba residents beg govt to fix Uratta Road
Property owners and residents of Uratta Road in Aba North Local Government Area of Abia State, with an estimated population of over 300,000 people, have implored the state government to
- From Sunny Nwankwo, Umuahia
Property owners and residents of Uratta Road in Aba North Local Government Area of Abia State, with an estimated population of over 300,000 people, have implored the state government to fix their road before the rainy season.
Our correspondent, who visited the area, reports that the road, said to have over 100 adjoining streets, has become waterlogged and taken over by weeds, thus becoming a habitat for toads and frogs.
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Noted as one of the major roads in Aba township, Uratta Road, which connects the newly built Port Harcourt Road with the Old Express Road, as well as Enugu-Port Harcourt Highway, has been a nightmare to residents and road users.
“When Ossy Prestige was alive, he worked on this road from Uratta Junction, Port Harcourt Road, crossed the railway and got to the church towards Amaukwu, but could not complete it. Ever since then it became motorable, although during rainy season it was often bad.
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“But for the past four years now, the road has spoilt beyond recognition. We’re like a people living in a different world, while those on Port Harcourt Road and Express Road are of a different world altogether,” Modestus Okolie, a resident, told our correspondent.
Janet Ikechukwu, another resident and a trader at Ekeoha Shopping Centre, said: “When a road gets so bad that even bicyclists and motorcyclists cannot ply it, what do you want human beings to do?’’
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Speaking further, Mrs Ikechukwu said: “We’re all here because some of us have properties; if not, I’ve experienced enough suffering to even run back to my village. I trek everyday between numbers 90 and 95 on Uratta Road to Uratta Junction on Port Harcourt Road before I can get a tricycle to my shop.’’
Pa Ikenna Okwudili, who said he had lived in the area for over 40 years, described Uratta Road as a road with endless promises, dreams and hopes, but one that had ended up getting disappointments, nightmares and hopelessness.
Onyekachi Ogbonna says criminals, especially bag snatchers, are beginning to occupy the area again.
He called on Governor Otti and the Greater Aba Development Authority (GADA) to make Uratta Road a priority.
