A lawmaker representing the Arochukwu/Ohafia Constituency in
the House of Representatives, Uko Ndukwe Nkole, has urged
President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the circumstances that
lead to the abandonment of the Ohafia-Arochukwu Road
rehabilitation contract awarded by the defunct Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF) during Buhari’s tenure as chairman.
Nkole raised questions on the issue when he undertook an
inspection of the road, which has been neglected for a long time
despite the fact that contracts for rehabilitation work on the road
had been awarded at different times.
Elder Kalu, a 72-year-old community leader in the area, told the
lawmaker that the road has never been repaired since it was built
by the defunct government of the eastern region.
According to Kalu, it is difficult to understand why the road has
been neglected for so long.
Speaking to journalists at one of the eroded portions of the road at
Ania Ohafia, Representative Nkole, who is a town planner by
profession, recalled two previous contracts that were awarded to
repair the road.
One of the contracts was said to have been awarded by defunct
PTF, which had President Buhari as executive chairman with the
late Professor Chimere Ikoku, a notable son of Arochkwu and
former vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, as vice
chairman.
The second contract, which is supposed to be subsisting but
seemingly abandoned, was awarded by former president Goodluck
Jonathan’s federal government.
According to Nkole who said he supports president Buhari’s
decision to probe into some government activities, urged him to
extend same to failed contracts stressing that, in doing so “he
should probe why the contract awarded by the PTF under him
failed to execute the rehabilitation of the Ohafia/Arochukwu federal
road.”
He also urged the Federal Government to help make the
contractors finish the job they started so as to alleviate the
hardship of the people in that community.
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