aspabay:


This guy's comprehension remains your main challenge.

If FG fails call your representative and leaders to do the needful, do stay in your huts and be shouting FG, FG, this is my point.
to your question, FG owns that road, and work began on its repairs in March 2021.

The traffic there is as a result of the construction works. That's how julus Berger works, cause traffic, scatter everywhere, though they end up with good works.

Sit there and be shouting restructuring as if it will automatically make your sleeping leaders responsibe.

Oga, if the word restructuring is such a threat to your psyche, just settle down.
It is simply a 'process' by which people sit down and negotiate solutions to intractable or long running problems that have refused to be solved. It draws responsibility closer to the people and gives the people more power to hold those with the responsibility culpable.

Clearly there is an infrastructural challenge in Nigeria that the primary authorities cannot or have not handled since independence.
Is it a cardinal sin to sit down and say for example, states take these roads and handle them, maintain them and we cede a percentage of Nigeria's earnings to assist you, or increase your allocations, or we give you the whole budget of the Federal Ministry of Works and then shut down that miserable Ministry for good..

Or if you cannot give them additional funds you permit them to raise capital or commercialise these facilities.
This highway (and by the way Calabar is the only capital city in Nigeria served by a single lane highway even though it was long ago the defacto capital of the Niger area.
Yet, it is serves the whole of the South-South, the South-East and North-Central from the ports and free trade zone, cement coming from Unicem and granite from Akamkpa. Thousands of heavy duty vehicles ply that one lane road every week all the way to Bayelsa, Onitsha, Ebonyi and beyond.

If the owners of the road, the Federal government cannot recognise the huge potentials of that viability they should let it go, simple. No sentiment.

I do not know the extent of Julius Bergers work since it is a year and a half since I last ventured there but at that time it was abandoned and disputed between government institutions and since I found the sea route more viable I simply fly into Uyo, motor down to Oron and sea cross to Calabar.

And here you talk about Representatives as if they have budgets to fix roads or are able to speak up in a parliament that is pro Executive.

letristian:
I plied that road in earlier this year, I felt so bad that I would have taken medication. How can a State that produces much revenue via oil have such lengthy kilometres of bad roads. But those in the North are super dual carriage nylon built

And somebody wants us to be united in conditions of suffering and smiling.

E really choke!

Tell the people of that state of freedom, they will tag you enemy.

Na wetin u call deplorable be dis

invectives:
1hour 30 mins to 2 hours most!!!

this is where we have found ourselves. yet this governors would come out commissioning projects on media.

where are those projects being commissioned? projects that would be of direct benefit to every Tom dick and harry are laying idle.

sorry once again for your time wasted.

Governance is so easy in any nation where leadership is sensible.
There is simply no need for this.
Government's role in any society is one or organising people around values, period.
If a collection of people can do a thing for themselves there is no need for them to be lorded over.

If I were to be the President of Nigeria the only files coming across my table will concern Defence, Customs & Immigration and Macro Economics.

What is my business with refineries, roads, bridges railways or rice farming. These are things ordinary citizens can handle themselves if resourced and empowered. We are just suffering from a very poorly structured entity called Nigeria.

Put those infrastructure under the wheel of justice or the wheel of capitalism and see how they will work and prosper.

You spent 7hrs!! That means theyve repaired the road a bit

They have oil right? Places with oil in Nigeria is like Yemen instead of dubai

Reference:


[s]Oga, if the word restructuring is such a threat to your psyche, just settle down.
It is simply a 'process' by which people sit down and negotiate solutions to intractable or long running problems that have refused to be solved. It draws responsibility closer to the people and gives the people more power to hold those with the responsibility culpable.

Clearly there is an infrastructural challenge in Nigeria that the primary authorities cannot or have not handled since independence.
Is it a cardinal sin to sit down and say for example, states take these roads and handle them, maintain them and we cede a percentage of Nigeria's earnings to assist you, or increase your allocations, or we give you the whole budget of the Federal Ministry of Works and then shut down that miserable Ministry for good..

Or if you cannot give them additional funds you permit them to raise capital or commercialise these facilities.
This highway (and by the way Calabar is the only capital city in Nigeria served by a single lane highway even though it was long ago the defacto capital of the Niger area.
Yet, it is serves the whole of the South-South, the South-East and North-Central from the ports and free trade zone, cement coming from Unicem and granite from Akamkpa. Thousands of heavy duty vehicles ply that one lane road every week all the way to Bayelsa, Onitsha, Ebonyi and beyond.

If the owners of the road, the Federal government cannot recognise the huge potentials of that viability they should let it go, simple. No sentiment.

I do not know the extent of Julius Bergers work since it is a year and a half since I last ventured there but at that time it was abandoned and disputed between government institutions and since I found the sea route more viable I simply fly into Uyo, motor down to Oron and sea cross to Calabar.

And here you talk about Representatives as if they have budgets to fix roads or are able to speak up in a parliament that is pro Executive.[/s]

Keep blaming FG

No wonder your Governors, Reps, Senators, NDDC etc take you for granted

invectives:
It's Rainy Season Again and the ordinary Citizens of Nigeria in the AkwaCross Region are Up for immense suffering again

I Spent 7 hours yesterday on that Road and Another 8hrs today. Leaving me to ask if our Governor can't do an intervention Job on this Road to Alleviate the plight Motorist and Commuters....We know the Road is a Federal Road but must your citizens suffer because of Politics??

They are building an oil and gas Park around that bad spot,alot of construction machinery are in the vicinity, Now can't they have human sympathy and bring out a payloader to come help clear traffic.....

Please lala Kindly help get this to front page so our Ogas at the Top can Torchlight this....

#PrayforUs

Make him do the road na super highway he say he go do. Ole in one party now changing to avoid being probe....we dey watch

This Calabar-Itu road makes me think and overthink whenever it is time to travel. Rainy season is bad, harmattan season is worse. The bad road and dust na die.

SEGLIZ:

op sorry about your time.
how many hours should that journey be originally?

1 hour 30 minutes

SeaTrade:
Till militant catch you for that water,then you go know.
You think people don't know that?

they beheaded the both driver and killed one passenger last month at the same river

letristian:
I plied that road in earlier this year, I felt so bad that I would have taken medication. How can a State that produces much revenue via oil have such lengthy kilometres of bad roads. But those in the North are super dual carriage nylon built

And somebody wants us to be united in conditions of suffering and smiling.

E really choke!

who are you blaming now.... Jonathan suppose to do all this roads in East during is tenure... northerners always favour themselves!

NewDawn2O21:
they beheaded the both driver and killed one passenger last month at the same river

Leave the guy to dey talk wetin e no know.

Reference:


Calabar is the only capital city in Nigeria served by a single lane highway even though it was long ago the defacto capital of the Niger area.
Yet, it is serves the whole of the South-South, the South-East and North-Central from the ports and free trade zone, cement coming from Unicem and granite from Akamkpa. Thousands of heavy duty vehicles ply that one lane road every week all the way to Bayelsa, Onitsha, Ebonyi and beyond.

You're blessed for this statement... The fact that Cross River(Calabar) has just one single lane highway linking Akwa Ibom & other Southern states with there being just a little fuss about it
here, is what beats me.

Given the concentration of M&C coys within that region and the continuous utilization of that road by heavy duty trucks, more should have been done before now.

donnie:
Digtal governor

I thought that road have been reconstructed by apc govt why again people are still suffering on that road till now, mr president do you know that the people you approve contract to fixed this road did not do anything on the road but vanished with the money �� EFCC this is ur work now oooooooooooEFCC

Oh

Its Cross River not Akwa Ibom State...

Akwa Ibom govt once asked for partnership with Cross River State to repair road and make it a dual carriage, but CRS said no.

So let them enjoy!

letristian:
I plied that road earlier this year, I felt so bad that I would have taken medication. How can a State that produces much revenue via oil have such lengthy kilometres of bad roads. But those in the North are super dual carriage nylon built

And somebody wants us to be united in conditions of suffering and smiling.

E really choke!

NewDawn2O21:
1 hour 30 minutes

ain't we turning israelite in our own country? accomplishing a journey of 40 days in 40 years, a journey of 1 hour 30 mins turning a 7 hour journey, is just a NO.

every evil leader, those oppressing and frustrating us in this country would know no peace.

don3e:

Make him do the road na super highway he say he go do. Ole in one party now changing to avoid being probe....we dey watch

No mind the SMD!!!

I almost cried on that road two weeks ago. Till today I can't find my bumper

SS PPL SHEY YOU ARE ONE NIGERIA GO AND TELL YOU OGA BUBU TO COME AND FIX YOUR ROAD NOW ABI?

invectives:
for Where? This is the worst road on the planet.

The worst road on the planet is Yungas Road in Bolivia ...a pure death trap.

(Google is your friend)

lokito:
I almost cried on that road two weeks ago. Till today I can't find my bumper

lol....it's that Bad..