Work on the reconstruction of the collapsed Imiringi community bridge in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has reached advanced stage sparking hope that it would be completed on time.

Residents of the serene but fast growing settlement were forced to build a makeshift wooden channel, popularly known as Monkey Bridge, across the Kolo Creek to link the community, when the bridge built over four decades ago buckled during the 2012 flood disaster and the long distance of the narrow SPDC iron bridge from the heart of the community.

Though the reconstruction of the collapsed bridge was started in 2014, it was however, stalled due to funding constraint caused by the drop in the state allocation from the federation accounts during the recent recession experienced in the country. But the contractor handling the project returned to site about three months ago after it was mobilised by the state government in fulfilment of its promise to the people of the area to construct a new bridge to link the community.

According to Ranami, “Good work is ongoing. I want to say that our talking and crying and asking the state government to send the contractor back to site instead of keeping the project as an abandoned project, were not in vain. Thanks to the restoration government for listening to the voice of reason. With the speed of work going on, I want to believe the restoration government will meet up their target of commissioning the bridge in the month of June 2018.

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