The deplorable condition of South East Federal Roads get Senate’s attention

The deplorable condition of federal roads across  South Eastern Nigeria zone received attention from the Nigerian Senate.

The recent intervention by the Federal Government was as a result of a motion by Senator Uche Ekwunife, representing Anambra Central Senatorial district where she decried the bad condition of federal roads in the zone, especially the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway.
Senator Ekwunife, who led the Ad Hoc Committee on Works, responded quickly to the plight of Anambra and South East states, which are on national emergency list of states with high priority threats of ecological menace.

This visit was a follow up to Ekwunife’s motion on the floor of the Senate on the urgent need to rehabilitate the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, which is in a deplorable condition and the numerous erosion sites threatening economic activities in the state.
“Through the resilience and hard work of Senator Ekwunife, who is also a member of the Senate Ad Hoc  Committee on Works, the Senate mandated the committee, led by Senator Barnabas Gemade to visit the affected states in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria.”

The states visited included, Anambra, Abia, Imo, Akwa Ibom, and Edo states.
The mandate of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee  was to visit communities with prevalent gully erosions, landslides and washouts and collate extremely dilapidated federal roads for attention of the government.