The only road (highway) linking
Cross River State and other parts of the country has been cut into two. The
road near Palmol Nigeria has been bad for over a year with erosion cutting
deeply gradually.
The erosion according to our
findings has finally eaten up the entire road, severing it into two. Commuters
who travel from the other parts of the country including Akwa Ibom State to
Cross River State have to disembark, trek across the erosion site and join
another vehicle to Calabar.
The development has created a lot
of problem, hence the high cost of living in Cross River State as the economic,
political and social lives of the people of the state have been seriously
affected.
The price of Garry, Rice, Oil and
other food items have all been increased by 200%. Besides, the increases in the
cost of foodstuffs, Nigerians passing through the bad road are subjected to
severe suffering. Most of the commuters have their clothes torn to shred and
dirty due to the bad road.
Our correspondent who visited the
erosion prone area observed that thousands of commuters and several hundreds of
people were seen stranded. Commercial drivers conveying passengers from other
parts of the country regretted plying the road.
“Assuming I know that the road
was so bad, I wouldn’t have ventured to carry these innocent passengers to
Cross River State. We came in from Port Harcourt and now we cannot get to
Calabar. What should I do, my family is in Calabar, where am I going to park my
vehicle now?” Peter Richard Okon lamented.
When the Cross River State
Commissioner for Works, Engr Osim Asu Dan was contacted on phone on Thursday,
he said he could not grant a telephone interview or comment on anything on
phone.
He asked our correspondent
whether he does not know his office. Disappointingly, efforts to reach the
commissioner in his office failed as he claimed he was not on seat.
Interestingly, when the Chief
Press Secretary to Governor Ben Ayade, Mr Christian Ita was contacted on phone
on Thursday, he said that intervention work was ongoing and referred our
correspondent to the Commissioner for Works.
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