Niger Delta
Residents Task Oshiomhole On Estate Rehabilitation
Residents of Edo Development and Property Authority (EDPA) estate in Ugbowo area of Benin, have appealed to Governor Adams Oshiomhole to rehabilitate the estate.
Some residents, who spoke with our correspondent in Benin, lamented that the estate, developed more than 35 years ago by the regime of Dr Samuel Ogbemudia in the defunct Bendel State, had lost almost all its infrastructure.
They also regretted that the school, shopping mall, water scheme and other facilities, “provided in the once-attractive estate”, had decayed so much that they had become “forests”.
One of the residents, Chief Akang Osamede, who said he had lived in the estate since 1972, wondered why successive administrations neglected the estate developed with public funds.
Describing the estate as “high-brow” as conceived by government, he said that it was one of the choicest areas in the Edo capital where middle and high income earners rushed to live in.
“It was the delight of tenants as the area had good facilities and security”, Osamede who retired from the civil service in the defunct Bendel in 1975 told newsmen in Benin.
He recalled that he and some other residents in the estate were instrumental to the location of a police station in the community.
According to him, the neglect of the estate, coupled with perennial flooding has forced people to move out of there in droves.
“There are no roads any more in the estate, no drainage for flood, indeed, everything that we had here and enjoyed as people living in a government estate are all dilapidated and gone”, he lamented.
Osamede appealed to the state government to rehabilitate the estate so as to restore confidence of the people in governance, saying that people currently living in the area “think differently about government from our experience in the estate”.
An investigation by our correspondent showed a completely dilapidated state of infrastructure and many abandoned buildings, which were vacated due to the situation in the community.
The residents mainly found in the state currently are students of University of Benin, located in the same neighbourhood.
Current rent in the estate is between N120, 000 and N150, 000 per annum, for a detachable three-bedroom bungalow with boys’ quarters.
Many of the buildings are fallow, with some overgrown with weeds while others serve as haven for criminals.
Efforts by our correspondent to speak with officials of BDPA (now Edo Development and Property Authority) (EDPA), at its headquarters on Sakpomba Road, was unsullessful as the place was desolate when our correspondent visited.
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