Following the video report that a section of the Ochanja road in Onitsha under construction by the Anambra State government was washed away during a downpour, some residents of the area have taken to the street, protesting that it was an attempt to rubbish the state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo.
The placard- carrying traders from Ochanja market and residents of Fegge, a neighbourhood close to Ochanja market, said desperate politicians were at work and urged them to leave Governor Soludo alone to concentrate on the delivery of dividends of democracy to the people.
Their spokesman, Chief Okwudili Obinwanne lamented that politicians in the state were sparing no effort in their attempt to discredit the good work that Governor Soludo is doing in Ochanja in particular and Anambra State as a whole, adding that as far as they were concerned, nothing is wrong with the road under construction.
What happened, he added, was that the contractor was putting the initial layer of asphalt on the road when the very first major rain in Anambra fell with the attendant flood unseating the hot asphalt that is yet to settle on the stone base and cement stabilization components that had earlier been compacted on the stretch of road.
According to him, nothing serious happened to warrant the recriminations and campaign of calumny being carried against Soludo and his government.
Obinwanne observed that for over four decades, successive governments had come and gone without thinking of reconstructing or doing any meaningful on the Ochanja road.
“Before now, the road was one dusty stretch that never crossed the previous governor’s minds. But within two years of Soludo’s administration the story changed in a manner that beat everyone’s imagination. “Moreso, the quality of roads are of high standard, with street lights to match,” he said.(Vanguard)
