By Onyebo Wisdom
If you are not from Imo or haven’t lived in Imo for up to 5 years, you may not understand why Imolites get strangely excited whenever a fixed road stays in use for up to three months without needing total overhauling. You may not understand how Imolites feel about this award until you understand what acid rain means. A time when a man accuses the heavens of being responsible for damaging a road project less than a month after it was constructed.
You will join people of other states to say that Mba and Otti are doing a lot, and may even argue about how Vanguard managed to arrive at the conclusion to give this award to Ọnwa, if you do not know that powdered charcoal was once used as asphalt to fix Imo roads, and one rainfall (in some cases drizzle) washes away an entire road and leaves the site worse than it was before it was fixed.
Imolites can now see a project design in a paper or sign post and when the project is completed, it will be delivered exactly as it appears in the paper. Physical Imo today is exactly the digital Imo you watch on television. And the state is beautiful without Christmas lights and dumps of uncleared-filled refuse bins. I used to think that the uncleared waste bin was part of the decorative equipment the Imo government used to showcase Imo’s beauty to visitors until Emeka’s time and now the neat regime of Governor Hope Uzodinma.
Senator Hope Uzodinma builds quality projects. He has many flaws, but he builds quality roads. The development plan infrastructure-wise is thorough. All connecting roads to the state capital have gotten the right attention except one.
Congratulations to the shared prosperity government and the people’s governor. While I appreciate you in no small way for the projects so far, I will not feel fulfilled with your project works until the road to Old Road Nekede is fixed alongside Ihiagwa Road. No government has remembered and worked well for that old Nekede. For the past 15 years, their road has not been fixed. I was sad to see that the zoo, for which people and the government remember the place, has been closed down. Imo has an agricultural site there, too. The governor should kindly help to fix that road and fix Ihiagwa road too. Ndí a ataala ahụhụ for years.
