Aba: The Slump Called Enyimba City

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A visit to Aba town, popularly known as Enyimba City in Abia State in the eastern part of Nigeria, will tell one how crude those in positions of authority treat their citizens.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the once popular city known for commercial activities and embodiments of good life has really turned to a slump courtesy of years of neglect by the successive governments.

Virtually all the major roads in Aba town such as Ngwa, Asa, Omuma, Obohia roads and many others are bad shape and not motorable. Flood has taken over the roads to extent that the residents cannot drive through with their cars and they now prefer to use Keke Napep (tricycle) to move about. The deplorable conditions of the roads in Aba have made the residents to conclude that the city was cursed and there was no hope of revamping the city back in a long time.

P.M.EXPRESS investigation revealed that no government wants to work on the roads from the Local Government to the State level; reason the roads have become so bad to the extent that if any administration wants to work on the roads, they need to abandon other places in the State in the next four years and to them it was not a good political decision to embark on.
Some of the Aba residents who spoke on the sorry situation of the roads said that they have since given up and do not hope the roads will be motorable in the near future.

However, the bad roads have become a source of employment to many residents who assist motorists to lift their vehicles out from the flood and by putting some planks for people to cross the flood.
Some of the residents lamented that the bad roads have affected their businesses and grounded the economic activities in the city courtesy of neglect and bad governance.