Kogi neighborhood cries out over deplorable Shintaku–Oguma highway

The Bassa-Nge Neighborhood Growth Community has issued a passionate enchantment to key political leaders in Kogi State and the Federal Authorities, calling for pressing intervention within the rehabilitation of the Shintaku–Oguma Highway, which they described as “past deplorable”.

In an open letter addressed to Governor Usman Ododo, Senator Jibril Isah Echocho of Kogi East, and Paul Gowom, representing Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency, the group lamented the devastating influence of the highway’s situation on the day by day lives of the Bassa-Nge folks and surrounding communities.

In keeping with the letter signed by Joseph Emmanuel Yaba, President of the Bassa-Nge Neighborhood Growth Community, the Shintaku–Oguma Highway serves as a essential financial and social hyperlink connecting Bassa Native Authorities Space to the remainder of the state.

He famous that years of neglect have rendered the highway almost impassable, significantly throughout the wet season.

The group listed a number of penalties of the highway’s deterioration, together with delays in accessing healthcare, particularly for pregnant ladies and the sick, and financial losses for farmers who’re unable to move their produce.

He added that as a result of dangerous highway community, it has led to rising transportation prices and broken autos forcing drivers off the route; and has additional elevated insecurity attributable to poor accessibility and isolation.

Whereas acknowledging the efforts of the federal government in addressing inherited infrastructural challenges, the Bassa-Nge leaders emphasised that the Shintaku–Oguma Highway has turn out to be an emblem of long-standing neglect that should not be ignored.

In keeping with the group “We enchantment to you, within the spirit of fairness and good governance, to prioritize the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Shintaku–Oguma Highway. The time has come for Bassa-Nge folks to really feel the influence of governance and inclusion in developmental strides.”

The group expressed confidence within the potential of the present administration to reply with decisive motion, stating that historical past would keep in mind them as those who reconnected Bassa and renewed the hope of their folks with shared prosperity and progress.