•Come over to Ugwuakwu and help us, residents tell Soludo
It brings tears to the eyes when one sees the disastrous gullies of erosion eating up the road, houses and farms in Ugwuakwu village, Umuchu town, Aguata LGA, Anambra State.
The road was abandoned by the former administration, and erosion is now destroying landmark projects by rapidly cutting off the food basket zone with many agricultural establishments and industries.
The clear and present need is to take immediate action in reconstructing the pivotal road to avert the looming disaster.
It is crucial to stress that this road leads to Orient Farms Ltd, Eagle Foods Industries Ltd, Efi Igbo Ranch, Emenike Pineapple Farms Ltd, Ohuche Cashew Industries Ltd and a host of other agro-based industrial companies.
There is no gainsaying that the road is so crucial to Anambra State in order not to allow the multimillion-naira establishments to go to waste.
Once urgent attention is paid to the road through the completion of its construction, it would be a smooth ride from the famous Nkwo market in Umuchu to the vast farmlands and industries in Achalla and Ibughubu villages and on to Umunze town and thenceforth to Imo State.
It is worthy of reiteration that the abandoned road traversing Ugwuakwu village, in Umuchu town, to such agro-based industries as Orient Farms Ltd, Eagle Foods Industries Ltd, Efi Igbo Ranch, Emenike Pineapple Farms Ltd, Ohuche Cashew Industries Ltd and a host of others, needs to be urgently completed.
A resident, Ify Okonkwo, appealed to government to intervene as a matter of urgency. She said: “If nothing is done with immediate effect, the entire area would be lost soon. We need urgent government intervention. As they say, a stitch in time saves nine.”