Residents of Nekede in Owerri West LGA of Imo State who use the old Nekede road to and from Owerri as well as workers of the Imo State Ministry of Agriculture, zoological quarters as well as commuters to the Rokana Industries, Otammiri and Nworie sand excavation sites etc, will soon be fully cut-off from the state capital following a huge erosion gully created at the end of the old Nekede – Owerri bridge at the Akanchawa road junction caused by illegal sand mining in the area.
Our reporter who visited the scene observed that commuters on the road are forced to squeeze on one lane making use of the area difficult, causing very long hold-up. While users on that road to new Owerri may have alternative routes, citizens and tenants who live at the old part of Umualum and Old Nekede road have no alternative route to get home and have cried out to the state government to come to their rescue before the road is completely cut off while describing the scene as a death trap waiting for who to swallow.
