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

he conventional ruler of Ubaha Oriendu Historical Kingdom in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, Eze Phillip Ajomiwe, has expressed fears {that a} bridge linking Abia with Imo State throughout the Ubaha Oriendu-Ihite Uboma axis would possibly quickly cave in.

Eze Ajomiwe, who expressed considerations whilst analyzing the level of wear at the bridge, regretted that the Niger Delta Construction Fee, NDDC, didn’t act on repeated alarms he had raised concerning the facility.

The monarch warned that flooding occasioned through consistent rains in September broken a bit of the bridge, elevating fears of imaginable cave in if no engineering intervention is performed.

He known as for pressing intervention through the NDDC, Abia State Executive and  different related federal businesses to save lots of the bridge from collapsing.

Ajomiwe described the bridge as a important financial and social hyperlink for agrarian communities, farmers and fishermen who use it as a shorter direction between the 2 states, stressing that its cave in would impose critical hardship on citizens and undermine the aim for which the infrastructure was once supplied.

The standard ruler mentioned he had written the NDDC in earlier years over the deteriorating situation of the bridge and was once confident that the rehabilitation request can be captured within the fee’s finances however regretted that not anything was once carried out.

He appealed to the NDDC to behave at the dedication, pronouncing the present situation of the bridge required speedy palliative measures sooner than the erosion reasons irreversible harm.

“I’m interesting to the NDDC to satisfy its promise as a result of what we’re seeing here’s devastating. If not anything is completed, the bridge would possibly utterly cave in and our folks residing at the different facet of the river will probably be bring to an end,” he mentioned.

In a similar building, the Ngada Bridge, linking Ngada Isuochi group in Umunneochi with neighboring communities, has collapsed, disrupting human and vehicular motion.

Reacting to enquiries through DAILY POST, the member representing the Umunneochi Constituency within the Abia State Area of Meeting, Umeh Mathias, showed the advance, promising to behave at the topic.