PDP chieftain slams FG over collapsed Ikom-Boki-Obudu road

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Comrade Abang Pius Besong, has criticised the Federal Government implicit the deplorable information of the 140-kilometre Ikom-Boki-Obudu national road successful Cross River State, calling for its urgent rehabilitation.

Besong, the PDP campaigner for Ikom/Boki Federal Constituency, urged President Bola Tinubu, Governor Bassey Otu and the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to intervene, informing that the collapsed roadworthy had severely disrupted economical activities and question successful Boki communities.

He made the entreaty connected Saturday portion reacting to the deteriorating information of the highway, besides known arsenic the Ikom-Wula-Obudu Road.

Describing the roadworthy arsenic the lifeline of the Boki people, Besong said its impassable sections had efficaciously chopped disconnected communities and subjected residents to terrible economical hardship.

He lamented that farmers were struggling to transport their nutrient to markets, portion rising proscription costs and the hazard of post-harvest losses continued to wounded livelihoods.

Viral videos circulating online, helium noted, showed trucks and buses conveying cultivation nutrient trapped successful heavy mud on the route.

Besong said Boki’s affluent cultivation resources, including cocoa and timber, contributed importantly to the economies of Cross River State and Nigeria, yet the country continued to endure infrastructure neglect.

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