See how flood wrecks Makurdi-Lafia-Abuja road

Photo: Punch

The only road linking Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is about splitting into two at Yelwa, Makurdi, Benue State due to the flood havoc.

Motorists and commuters plying the road laments over the situation after spending long hours on the road on Tuesday.

According to Punch, a bus passenger, Chukwu, told said that he and his co-travellers had spent several hours on the same spot with no relief in sight.

He said, “We left Onitsha, Anambra State, at about 10pm on Monday, en route to Abuja. We got to this spot in the early hours of Tuesday, precisely 6am, to find out that the road had collapsed. You can see how deadly the spot is; we have been waiting for our turn to drive pass it; the spot can hardly take a vehicle.”

It was learnt that Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, had ordered a repair of the bad portion of the road.

Ortom reportedly asked the CGGC Construction Company to immediately carry out rehabilitation of the failed portion to make the road motorable again.

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A state official said work on the road would commence on Wednesday (today) and would be supervised by the Commissioner for Works, Transport and Energy, Emmanuel Manger.

The governor was said to have expressed concern about the hardship faced by motorists on the road.

He restated the commitment of his administration to making life more meaningful for the people in various sectors of the economy.