Senate orders urgent rehabilitation of Onitsha, Ogbaru, Ndoni Federal Highway

The Nigerian Senate has called for the urgent rehabilitation of the Onitsha–Ogbaru–Ndoni Federal Highway, which links Anambra State to Rivers State.

The solution followed a question pursuant to Orders 41 and 51 of the Senate Standing Orders, sponsored by the legislator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, Senator Tony Nwoye.

Presenting the motion, Nwoye argued that the Onitsha–Iyiowa–Odekpe–Atani–Ogwuikpele–Ndoni Federal Highway is simply a strategical national roadworthy linking the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones.

He said the roadworthy was partially constructed successful the precocious 1980s but had suffered decades of neglect without immoderate large rehabilitation.

He besides noted that prolonged abandonment, ageing infrastructure, expanding postulation measurement and the lack of regular attraction had reduced the road to a deplorable state, characterised by extended pavement failures, heavy potholes and terrible erosion, thereby posing superior dangers to the lives and spot of commuters and different roadworthy users.

He said, “The deteriorating information of the road has importantly accrued question time, specified that a travel of astir 70 kilometres from Onitsha to Ogbaru and Ndoni, which ordinarily takes astir 1 hour, present takes astir 2 hours, resulting ...