Etche Community Tasks RSG On Road Rehab

The people of Igbo in
Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State have called on the state government to step up measures that begin the immediate rehabilitation of Igbo Housing Estate project in the area.
The traditional prime minister and Onuowu 1 of Otube Community in Chokoto, Igbo Etche, Chief Kemakolom Nwanuo made this appeal while speaking with journalists in his palace at the weekend.
Nwanuo said the call became imperative due to the dilapidated conditions of the estate project, noting that the present realities in the estate are an affront to the intentions of the project.
According to him, the estate was built by the then military governor of the state Capt. Samuel Ewang, adding that since then successive governments in the state have not given proper attention to the project.
The Onuowu 1 of Otube community disclosed that the estate has become a criminal hideout and urged the state government to return the place to the community if they were no longer interested in the project.
He averred that the entire estate has been over taken by bush and poses lot of security threats to the community, adding that the community was interested in taking back the land.
“The Igbo Housing Estate project was intended to address the challenge of housing deficit in the state as well as check the rural urban migration”.
“As we speak now, the place has become a thick bush where all forms of criminalities are perpetrated on daily bases. The community is at risk of various criminalities”, he stated.
The traditional ruler used the opportunity to call on the state governor, Barr Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike to urgently direct the relevant government agencies especially, the Ministry of Housing to set up machineries that would restore the lost glories of the project.
He assured the state governor of the continued co-operation and support of his community to his administration in the state.