Abia, Imo link bridge suffers major damage as monarch laments NDDC’s failed promises

he accepted ruler of Ubaha Oriendu Ancient Kingdom successful Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, Eze Phillip Ajomiwe, has expressed fears that a span linking Abia with Imo State done the Ubaha Oriendu-Ihite Uboma axis whitethorn soon collapse.

Eze Ajomiwe, who expressed concerns portion inspecting the grade of harm connected the bridge, regretted that the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, failed to enactment connected repeated alarms helium had raised astir the facility.

The monarch warned that flooding occasioned by changeless rains successful September damaged a conception of the bridge, raising fears of imaginable illness if nary engineering involution is carried out.

He called for urgent involution by the NDDC, Abia State Government and  other applicable national agencies to prevention the span from collapsing.

Ajomiwe described the span arsenic a captious economical and societal nexus for agrarian communities, farmers and fishermen who usage it arsenic a shorter way betwixt the 2 states, stressing that its illness would enforce superior hardship connected residents and undermine the intent for which the infrastructure was provided.

The accepted ruler said helium had written the NDDC successful erstwhile years implicit the deteriorating information of the span and was assured that the rehabilitation petition would beryllium captured successful the commission’s fund but regretted that thing was done.<...