The Igbo-Eze chapter of a pressure group, Coal City Diaspora Movement, has called on Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to consider the plight and precarious situation of the people of Igbo-Eze North and put the seemingly abandoned road projects in his priority list before 2019 general election.
The National President of the group, Onuora Odo, while responding to questions from journalists in his Lagos law office, posited that the people of Igbo-Eze North played a pivotal role during the 2015 general elections that saw to the emergence of Ugwuanyi.
In his words: “Apart from the fact that we sacrificed our own son, Senator Ayogu Eze, who appeared to stand a better chance, being a principal member of the Red Chambers at the material time and coming from a local government area that enjoys numerical superiority as far as Enugu State is concerned, we threw our weight behind him during the last elections.”
Odo expressed his worry that there is nothing on ground to justify the support and sacrifice.
Voicing their worries over the copious and conspicuous abandonment of the 3km road that cuts across Nkpamute, Ikpamodo and Okpo road, which the Governor awarded earlier this year, the group opined that something urgent needed to be done considering the fact that the road has been taken over by flood.
The road has become impassable and has become a death-trap, figuratively speaking, according to him.
In a similar manner, the group called on the Governor to consider replacing his late Chief Press Secretary, Chief Uwakwe Abugu, with someone from the local government.
Odo said: “It will be morally wrong and reprehensible to do otherwise.
“It will be repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience to give the appointment to someone else.
“We have media experts with proven competence, dexterity, honesty and integrity.”
Odo, while responding to questions with respect to the developmental projects in Igbo-Eze North, strongly condemned the deplorable situation of the roads in the area and encouraged Ugwuanyi to be alive to his responsibilities.
He said; “We do not want to believe the rumours making the rounds that the Governor has taken that position because of the funds he ‘wasted’ during the protracted legal battle with Senator Eze.”