Ijaw Youth To FG: Stop Playing Politics With East-West Road

An aspirant in the forthcoming Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide election, Bright Igrubia, yesterday accused the federal government of playing politics with its promise to complete the East-West road.
He said the project which remained the economic live wire of the people of the South-South region and the nation’s oil and gas industry must not be abandoned.
The former leader of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYC) who is contesting for the position of National Spokesman of IYC, urged the Federal Government to expedite action on completing the troubled road which according to him, has become a death trap, causing loss of lives and impacting negatively on economic activities in the region.
Igrubia in an interview shortly after his campaign council, Peace House, visited the IYC Elders Forum in Yenagoa, said IYC which represents the “resolutionary and revolutionary” movement of the Ijaw people must rise up and demand for rights of the people to have good roads, qualitative education, quality healthcare and sustainable means of livelihood.
He said: “Since our son, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, left office as president in 2015, not one shovel of asphalt has been poured on the East-West road which remains the economic live wire of the Ijaw and people of the Niger Delta region. That road is not Goodluck Jonathan’s road, it is Ijaw people’s road. That is why some of us expected the Federal Government to take that project seriously.
“While we all travelled from our various communities to Sagbama for the IYC convention, we all saw how deplorable that road is now. We all felt how the task of driving on that road was like.
“That goes to show that the Federal Government is playing politics with that road because they have not given the road the attention it needs”.