{"id":73951,"date":"2025-08-22T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73951"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:15:36","slug":"delta-community-demands-completion-of-10-year-old-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/22\/delta-community-demands-completion-of-10-year-old-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Community Demands Completion of 10-Year-Old Road Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President-General of the Abavo Clan Union, Mr. Justine Onyeibe, has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently resume work on the long-stalled Agbor-Amukpe Road dualisation project, which has remained incomplete for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>At a gathering at the Abavo Town Union Hall in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State on Friday, Onyeibe described the road\u2019s deplorable condition as a \u201ckidnappers\u2019 hunting ground,\u201d emphasizing that the narrow, pothole-ridden surface, often reduced to mud in rainy seasons has become a breeding ground for crime and poses serious risks to road users.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that while the dualisation contract was awarded in 2014 and contractors mobilized between 2015 and 2016, progress stalled shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers, he added, suffer greatly, with perishables like yams, cassava, plantains, and tomatoes frequently spoiling roadside due to transportation delays.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeibe asserted that completing the road would revitalize Abavo as a commercial hub-cutting transportation costs, boosting agriculture and agro-processing investments, generating youth employment, and spawning broader economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur demand is clear: the Federal Government should complete this road and put an end to the rising kidnapping menace along this corridor,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the event, Chief Odigie Yusuf, Chief of Staff to the Abavo monarch, urged both the Federal and Delta State governments to act swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that without fixing the road, the recently approved Agbor-Uromi junction flyover would lose its value and added that the unsafe road continues to endanger residents and motorists amid escalating kidnapping incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The President-General of the Abavo Clan Union, Mr. Justine Onyeibe, has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently resume work on the long-stalled Agbor-Amukpe Road dualisation project, which has remained incomplete for nearly a decade. At a gathering at the Abavo Town Union Hall in Ika South Local Government Area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73953,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951\/revisions\/73953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}