kokoye:

^^^ what's wrong with the benin govt getting the same architect or builder . . is there any crime in that?

#Afanna:

look kind of fake.lol

THE renewed Benin King Square in the Edo State capital, popularly known as Ring Road, has been demystified.
It used to be the stinky popular commercial hub of the ancient city. But today, it glitters like gold at night. Besides the intimidating illumination, the square in the city centre now has a water fountain, courtesy of the Edo State Government.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr John Mayaki, justified the renewed efforts to lift the square, which was home to questionable characters in the years past, from its squalid state.

He said: “There are no monsters hiding in there again. Our inability - even refusal - to do anything about it all these years was the monster.

Having promised to spare no efforts to enhance the socio-economic wellbeing of the people of the state, Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who on inspection of the ongoing construction of the musical water fountain at the museum ground, expressed delight with the level of work so far executed. The light has been switched on to the admiration of the public.

“This is part of government's commitment to enhance the aesthetic condition of Benin City and other parts of the state. It is similar to those in Europe. It is the first of its kind in the West African sub-region. Water from the fountain rises as high as 100 metres. It is not only laden with musical sound, but would emit different colours.”

Before now, Ring Road was a paradox and a nemesis all to Benin. Although more or less a melting point that had provided over decades sundry materials for the visual arts.

The square was the place with no bedtime, and, therefore, no time for waking. It used to be one bedlam of confusion before Oshiomhole came into office. It was also characterised by filth and almost everything indecent under the earth.

Traders, motorists, pickpockets, rapists, street urchins, the homeless and other characters were always there with different missions.

It was never a question of Benin trying to accommodate Ring Road but of the all-important road accommodating Benin.

Before the present transformation, while traders hustled to sell their wares, motorists sweat profusely inside their vehicles in the usual traffic gridlock, occasioned by the lawless tuke-tuke bus drivers picking passengers in the middle of the road, the street hawkers thrust their wares at passers-by, all created a confused atmosphere.

But Oshiomhole did vindicate himself in no uncertain terms, when he began his sanitisation programme in the Ring Road area with a final and definitive stroke that left no one in doubt of his seriousness.

Firstly, to bring sanity to Ring Road and get rid of its notoriety, the demolition squad of the state government swooped on the area and at the end of the operation, kiosks, shanties and other illegal structures were knocked down. This gave the road a new lease of life.

In the place of crime-infested area, a new-look Ring Road sprang up, making many people who had sworn never to have anything to do with it eat their words.

Today, most people passing through or having to transact business on the road and at the square, either in the day time or at night, have refreshing stories to tell.

Today, while Ring Road is illuminated at night and the square flaunts its fountain, street lights dot the entire stretch of the adjoining streets, such as Oba Market Road down to Ekenwan Road, Sokponba Road and Akpakpava Road, among others.

Besides, major work is ongoing on Airport Road and Sapele Road and those transiting from Ring Road to these adjoining roads are having smooth rides.

Even as the crowd surges in different directions, in seamless motion, no one is looking at the other person with suspicion in the night again.

Mayaki added: “The state government would never have succeeded in this feat, if the ordinary people had not supported and given their voices to it.

“The first lesson to be learnt, of course, is that most people want good lives, and the majority will always stay behind a government that delivers the better life they seek.

“This public approval, therefore, provides the moral courage the leader needs to execute his plans. Without courage, of course, the evil and corrupt institutions that have held our nation bound in poverty and chaos cannot be felled.

“The second has to do with consistency, which is the major factor by which a leader acquires the trust of the led.

“The Oshiomhole-led government is merely pursuing welfare programmes, rehabilitation and reinstitution projects with as much tenacity as it pursues improvements in the landscape and structural frameworks of Benin City and that is where its greenery project comes in and the water fountain inside the Museum.”

Oshiomhole was reported to have told the large crowd of admirers who thronged the King Square to catch a glimpse of the water fountain, radiating beautiful colours, of the need to give the necessary assistance to the government in the transformation of the state.

snowdrops:

i am sure that after the millions of hungry and jobless people in edo state have sat and watched this spectacle at ring road, their stomach will be full and maybe their job will be to sit and look ring road everyday.

good job by the government but wrong timing.

y me:

wetin them do for ring road  
looks classic to me, one and a half year is really a long time

Is that the only project he has been doing for one and half year.

hackney link=topic=471038.msg6316168#msg6316168 date=1278005783:

Why is he showing the same junction from different angles?
Wayo blood.

Praise him for the one he did 1st. your former broda, what did he do?


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