PHOTOS: Flood destroys road in Edo, two months after construction

Emmanuel AmudaAugust 25, 2021

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Flood has destroyed a 4-kilometre stretch road constructed by one company under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Edo community, two months after the road was tarred.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that the road linking Uokha to Ohanmi in Owan East local government area of Edo State has been washed off by a flood barely two months after it was completed.

TrackaNG, a project by Civic Tech Organisation, BudgitNG, raised alarm about the substandard work done on the road in a Twitter post on Tuesday, August 24, 2021.

The project was awarded to Messrs Hunslow International Limited by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Tracka said millions of naira were allocated to the project and called on anti-graft agencies to investigate the process.

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“Kindly help do the NEEDFUL,” the agency said.

Edo was similarly in the spotlight last month after a resident complained in a viral video about a poor road project in the Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of the state.

The project was also handled by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture And Rural Development who awarded the contract to Royal Jeff Nig Ltd. Governor Godwin Obaseki directed a state agency to take over the road project after describing the work done as substandard.

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