Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA and some landlords along Club Avenue, formally Abakaliki Street, Awka, are currently constructing a multi million naira culvert at the Iyi-Agu sycamore drainage portion of the road.
The culvert, which was at excavation stage, at the time of this report, will be completed within two weeks.
The particular portion is presently serving as mini keke park as they load and unload passengers because the road has been cut into two as a result of the construction work.
Inspecting the pace and quality of work at the site, the Managing Director and Chief Executive officer of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, Venerable Amaechi Okwuosa said that particular potion posed great danger to road users and inhabitants of the area, who experience over flow of flood into their homes and farm lands losing their valuables.
According to Venerable Okwuosa, the culvert, which is expected to last for a minimum of fifty years with good maintenance, will on completion, rescue the area from land slide and erosion as the flood along the Iyi-Agu Sycamore will be controlled.
Speaking on the construction work, a road user, Miss Amarachi Enwenike from Nkpologwu, Orumba North local government area and a keke rider from Ebonyi state, Mr. James Ndugo while expressing joy over the development, which according to them will ease free flow of traffic and flood on completion, appealed for the extension of such gesture to their streets.
Meanwhile, during inspection of a demolished perimeter fence under the high tension electric poles without the approved twenty-five meters setback along same street, Venerable Okwuosa warned that henceforth defaulters would be arrested, prosecuted and as well pay for the cost of demolition.
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