Okpuno is one of the communities that make up Awka capital territory and as such has all rights to a better infrastructure just like Awka capital city.
In view of this, the Anambra state government is doing all it could to boost the aesthetic look of the community by creating access roads and other amenities.
But it is a disappointment to see all government efforts go down the drain because of personal interest of a few individuals who cause total collapse or blockage of such roads like what is being witnessed along Goodwill-Nodu, Okpuno road, constructed by the former Governor Peter Obi’s administration.
Works correspondent Ngozi Obileri monitored the development and reports that After the first rain of the year, both vehicular and human movements became impossible from Goodwill junction to Nodu area of Okpuno because of flooding that took over the Bakassi axis of the road.
Before now, residents of the area, living behind the road where the flood water discharges naturally, before construction of the road which was properly discharged at the right point to avoid over flooding, pass through hell to cross the flood whenever it rains.
But this year, the water started settling on the road because of a number of obstructions caused by developers who blocked the natural flow of flood to Iyiagu area as they constructed perimeter fences of their properties, completely, providing no space for the water to pass through.
It got so bad that a residential building was overflooded in the area, during the last heavy downpour in the middle of the night which damaged properties estimated at millions of naira.
One of the victims, Mr Friday Aneke narrated that they were awakened by the cries of their neighbours living on the ground floor and rushed down to behold the surge of water inside their flats.
A landlord in the area, Mr Emmanuel Amaife noted that now that the water has settle on the tarred road, other people will experience what they have been going through for over nine years.
When contacted, the Managing Director of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority Venerable Amechi Okwuosa, who regretted what the victims are passing through said, they cannot fold their arms and watch the roads that gulped huge resources waste, assuring that they will look into the matter and bring a solution to the problem.
The road since after the rains has remained impassable to traffic.
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