AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI, THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE

*AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI , THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE*

 UKPENU/EMUHI ROAD IS NOW A DEATH TRAP!

_By hon Fidel Odiase_ 

Your Excellency Sir, The Executive Governor of Edo State, with due respect and honour to your office, and with a heart full of pains that I write to you today. I want to start by commending you for your effort so far towards fixing the bad roads in Edo State.

I was surprised that the Ukpenu/Emuhi road that has become a death trap for decades, was not captured on the list.

Your Excellency Sir, without mincing words, I would like to go straight to the point which is the situation and impassability of Ukpenu/Emuhi Road in Esan West Local Government Area Ward 7.

The deplorable state of the road has become something disheartening and has brought to a halt the socio-economic activities in the communities.

With due respect Sir, this road has become a nightmare to the entire Esan citizens and every road user. It is not motorable nor treckable and we are crying out loud to you for assistance. As a matter of urgency, the people in these affected communities are making this Save Our Souls (SOS) appeal.

The condition of this road has brought about assorted negative changes like... Hunger as a result of no road to the market to sell our harvested farm products. Emuhi community is the hub of fruits in Edo State especially pineapple and Orange. We have been abandoned totally for a  long time.  Ukpenu/Emuhi communities are two of the most populated communities in Esan West (Ward 7) with a high number of voters and political contributors. Why are we so abandoned?

The road to these communities is in a miserable state.

Residents of these communities have their livelihoods threatened due to this road that has made their economic activities nosedive to almost a halt. The communities have gained nothing under the PDP and APC administration but they keep voting massively in any election believing that the government will remember them but the reverse is the case. 

 I still believed in the adage

that says "A baby that doesn't cry still need to be breastfed" 

The predicament of Ukpenu/Emuhi communities is the worst in the entire local government.

Your Excellency sir, I want to categorically state that your government needs to do something before things get out of hand.

 The Governor Obaseki government should come to our rescue.

 HON FIDEL ODIASE 

                For

 Ukpenu and Emuhi     

Communities