Deputy Managing Director, Total E$P Nigeria Ltd, Mr Nicolas Brunel (left) discussing with Dr. Emmanuel Onu Egbogah, during the Institute of Petroleum Studies of University of Port Harcourt’s 10th Industrial/Anniversary ceremony in Port Harcourt, recently.
Photo: Obina Prince Dele

The Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority (RSHPDA) has said it will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all mechanics that have obstructed access to roads in Elekahia Housing Estate and have converted same to their workshops are flushed out of the place.
Speaking while interacting with The Tide in his office in Port Harcourt, RSHPDA General Manager, Architect Iyerefa Cookey-Gam stated that access roads to the Elekahia Housing Estate have been messed up by mechanics who us these roads as their garages, workshops and parking of unserviceable vehicles.
He said the situation has grossly abused the essence for creating such roads pointing that the state government and indeed the housing authority can no longer watch them abuse the essence of the estate access roads.
“Mechanics have converted some of the estate roads to mechanic garages. They have defected the roads and have reduced the roads created by government to garages for unserviceable vehicle without caution, he said.
Cookey-Gam thereafter declared that all the roads that are affected by the abnormalies at the Elekahia estate have been designated as ‘No Packing Zone’ especially Circular Road and the road that faces the phase II of the estate.
He said the ‘No Packing Zone’ declared at Circular Road and its axis is to enable vehicles going to the estate to have free access, and warned those obstructing traffic there to vacate the area, as the authority is poised to enforce the decision any moment from now.
The RSHPDA boss, however, maintained that the exercise will be a continuous one and will extend to other housing estates.