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WELCOME TO ROAD WHERE THERE IS NO ROAD IN IBUSA COMMUNITY OF ANIOMA

This road you are seeing is supposed to be the most strategic road in Ibusa after the Umejei Road but utter neglect from both the political representatives of Ibusa and government of Delta State combined to leave it as you see in these photos. On Jan 2, 2016, I took a visit to this road and after I made vain efforts to access Achala, which is now totally disconnected from the rest of Ibusa, I named it road where there is no road. Road where there is no road is the most politicized in the history of Ibusa and one of the most politicized and avoided roads in Anioma. Paradoxically, every big politicians' eyes from the town are on this road but none has done something about it. You just cannot find vehicles on the road. For instance, governments come and go, the road remains the same. Sometimes indigenes hear contract for the construction of the road has been awarded, in the end, nothing happens; sometimes caterpillars are sited on the road but they quietly get withdrawn without any job done. Sometimes too, we hear the road has been constructed but it remains the same. This road is becoming mysterious. This road is so important that it connects Ibusa to Asaba, the state capital but it is like a desert often avoided by humans and animals yet it is in the campaign promises of nearly all the political representatives of the community. This road called Ezukwu/Achala Road houses important heritages in Ibusa. On this road lie the Ikwele of Ibusa's palace, every indigene who has undergone ogbuu rite has precisely been on the road to complete the rite. Furthermore, it houses River Oduche that once served the domestic and cultural needs of the people. If this road was to be constructed, viable commercial ventures would spring up in large numbers but unfortunately every hope remains a mirage until further notice. And as everyone avoids settling on this road, the Umejei Rd axis is becoming choked with human settlements. The solution would have have just been to open up this other axis. However, as the people themselves say 'onye ga eji oku, oku ji anyu?'. The dispute over who will hold the lamp for all to see makes the lamp go off. Although Ibusa parades big political names and is well represented at the federal, state and LG level with its indigenes occupying sensitive positions; although Ibusa is an important town of Anioma and Delta State, the community is on utter neglect. This photo of the week on Ezukwu/Achala Road is calling on both the political representatives of the town and government of Delta State to rise to their promises prior to their election into offices and deliver to the people. Surely, the people of Ibusa are asking His Excellency Gov Okowa to construct the Ezukwu/Achala Road because it was one of the reasons he received overwhelming votes from the people of Ibusa. A state of emergency is necessary on this road. I hope I have spoken the minds of many Ibusa people.

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