Following significant rains, a drainage channel being built by the Anambra State Government on Niger Street in Fegge, Onitsha, has collapsed.
A local homeowner has complained about the poor quality of the continuing construction work in a video of the drainage that collapsed on Thursday night that has been making the rounds on social media.
The resident said, “Look at the kind of road that Governor Chukwuma Soludo is building for us. Just one rainfall in Onitsha, and the road has been washed off, while the drainage has collapsed.
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“Soludo has been saying he will turn Anambra into Dubai Taiwan (sic). Is this how he will turn Anambra into Dubai Taiwan? Just see the road, it is just red earth, no cement at all.”
Some residents said the rains came unannounced on the same day construction began.
One of them who identified herself as Nkem Nwanolue said, “The contractor is still on the site, and no one has declared the project completed. The concrete cast takes a minimum of seven days to cure and about 21 days to fully stabilise.
But another resident, Mr Godwin Okeke, insisted the project had been shoddily handled while blaming the development on “poor supervision” on the part of government officials, the team of engineers, and contractors handling the project.
Story adapted from Punch
