By Ikeugonna Eleke
Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has reacted to a trending video which showed a road said to have been newly constructed and commissioned but which was washed away after rainfall last Monday.
A media aide of the governor, Mazi Ejimofor Opara, in a statement, said the government had undertaken a visit to the spot and found that the road had only been asphalted the previous day before the rainfall.
Opara said: ‘After an on-the-spot visit to the trending Ochanja Road to ascertain the veracity of the viral video, the following facts are hereby presented.
‘The road in question is an active construction site and work is seriously ongoing, even as of yesterday, Monday, March 25, 2024. The portion of Ochanja Road was asphalted yesterday and couldn’t cure and stabilize properly before the downpour.
‘The stone base alone on that portion of the road, and indeed the long stretch of the entire road, is solid and very much intact. That the cause of the heavy water body that affected the less than 2 feet of the asphalted portion, was a silted drainage.
‘The creator of the video grossly exaggerated the situation by showing portions of a different road that is not under construction. That the ongoing road has not been completed and commissioned by the government of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
‘That only the Port Harcourt Road and Niger Street Road have been commissioned by Governor Soludo in Onitsha South LGA, and they are very firm and solid. The story is, at best, a deliberate distortion and over bloating of reality by mischief makers.’
