WHERE IS THE PEOPLES REPRESENTATIVES?

It is a common thing for politicians in Nigeria to forget campaign promises when they get into power and return with fresh promises when they need re-election, the sad thing is that Nigerians have being falling for this trick since 1998.

Saw a road recently in Yelwa/Romi ward of Kaduna State that needs asking of elected representatives of the people. This road is harmful to legs and cars alike {without exaggerating} that the dilapidated state of the road in that area led to the death of a seven year old because of flood.



its almost a month since rain fell in Kaduna state but water no still free the road.

I would like to emphasise the fact that representatives of this ward are not appointed but elected, the people of the area chose them to help salvage their situation yet transformation is still far away.

One resident who pleaded anonymity said “we have to park our cars far from our houses because of how bad the road is” another said “it is worse at night, when there is no light most people dey use torchlight to find better place to pass for the road”

Spirogyras have taken over! 

It is disheartening that this ward is not even in a rural area with scarce development, it is placed in between two major federal roads which means a good road network would definitely do more in lessening traffic on the federal highways and also open up the area for commercial activities.

When i asked of the councillor of the ward and efforts taken so far to fix the roads, no one was able to give a convincing answer. A resident popularly called 'coach' said the money given to councillors for their ward is not enough to do any meaningful facelift.

But then i ask, how much does it cost to erect a culvert, how much does it cost to fix drainages et al, in my view the issue is not about the money but that people do not hold their representatives accountable on how tax payers money are spent.

A culvert on the age of collapse... waste is also taking over the road!

Having said that, government is a two way thing, the people also contribute one way or the other to the continued decay of the roads by disposing waste in the not to good drainages and road sides in simple words, with no close attention to sanitary solutions.

Residents had to construct a makeshift passage for cars!

 

Initially thought of titling this piece ‘where is the councillor’ because of how sad the state of the road is, but changed my mind when I saw reasons that it would be unfair to place all the burden on the councillor alone, where is the Kaduna state Government?.

The fact speaks for itself

This may not be the worst road in Nigeria but is surely one of the worst in the Yelwa/Boro ward, true story peeps the road from Halima junction to Ejeg filling station is 'a story for the gods'. My people abeg get your voters card so we fit choose who go work for us come 2015.

Middle of a road that looks so much as a drainage!

lets not fall for the same trick come 2015, let the best man win.