Youth Leader Hails NDDC Over Road Construction

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been hailed over its determination to build and maintain roads in Port Harcourt and its environs.

Speaking with journalists at Rukpokwu on Sunday, the former Public Relations Officer of Rukpokwu Youth Association, Mr. Chijioke Amadi, said that the construction of roads, in some major streets in the heavy traffic along Airport Road.

Amadi, said that before  the construction of the roads, that the Rukpokwu market junction was a “no-go area” due  to heavy traffic.

According to him,  since the construction of some roads at the Rukpokwu new layout, there is a free traffic flow now in the area.

Commenting on the closure of the turning at market and Eneka junctions, he said that it was another  plus to the state government, saying  that Rukpokwu was becoming notorious in traffic difficulties.

He maintained that bad roads was the major reason of traffic difficulties in the state, while calling on concerned authorities to step up actions in the  aspect of road maintenance.

The community leader, who was full of praise for the government for the sustained okada ban, said that alternative means of fast and safe transportation schemes should be provided  for the people in inorder to ease their traffic plights.

He regretted that commuters now pay more due to the lack of government  subsidised  cabs that can pick and drop people at their gates just like what the motorbikes  were doing.

Meanwhile, he has called  on the state Government to ensure that all road contracts were  awarded to those that can deliver.