The leader of Gbokabari Ogoni, the apex forum of prominent elders of the Ogoni, Chief Monday Agboar, has decried the state of the East-West Road, saying the road is being neglected by the Federal Government.
He particularly expressed sadness over the poor state of the Port Harcourt Refinery axis that links both the fertilizer company and the Onne Port.
Agboar, during an interaction with journalists, said that the continuous neglect of the road which leads to institutions that generate much revenue to the government was provocative.
“In my own investigation, the Minister of  Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the road would be completed by December 2021, but I have found out that the contractor has not been paid.
“How can the road be completed in December this year when the contractor has not been paid, and is demobilised from the site?
“This is the road that leads to companies that generate multi-billion naira to the government, and they don’t want to complete this road”, he lamented.
On the issue of insecurity and cultism in Ogoni, the Gbokabari leader noted that oil bunkering activities had made cultism to thrive in the area.
He maintained that Ogoni elders were in a threshold of history to correct the mistakes of the past, so as to forge ahead.
According to him, the Gbokabari has eminent and distinguished personalities from different fields of endeavours and is determined to bring all disagreeing groups together as well as address every issue in Ogoni land.
Agboar regretted that the Ogoni people had been in the news for some negative reasons in recent times, assuring that  Gbokabari  would put an end to such negative tendencies.

By: Corlins Walter