Monarch cries out to FG, Abia govt over dilapidated road, water crisis

The accepted ruler of Ntalakwu Ancient Kingdom successful Itumbauzor, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, Eze Chike Okorie, has appealed to the Federal Government and the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, to hole the dilapidated Umuokpe Ntalakwu roadworthy and code the h2o situation successful his community.

The monarch, who spoke to DAILY POST astir the travails of his people, said the atrocious roadworthy and deficiency of potable h2o had worsened economical hardship and wellness challenges among his subjects.

Eze Okorie, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, lamented that indigenes surviving successful municipality areas recovered it hard to entree the community, portion those surviving successful the colony struggled to question retired to entree basal amenities.

He appealed to the Federal and Abia State governments to urgently rehabilitate the Umuokpe Ntalakwu roadworthy successful Itumbauzor, regretting that economical activities had declined drastically, with attendant antagonistic effects connected his people, whom helium described arsenic predominantly farmers.

He recalled that a conveyance conveying a corpse to the assemblage was precocious trapped successful mud astatine 1 of the unsafe spots on the dilapidated Umuokpe road, forcing youths to transportation the casket connected their heads to the burial venue.

“Recently, t...