🚨 IN 2018, A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTED WHAT THE PEOPLE OF EHA-AZUABOR AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS ALREADY KNEW:
"Communities largely cut off from their local government headquarters by erosion... roads only passable by motorcycles especially during the rains... cut off for over 50 years."
— Vanguard News, July 2018 🗞️
Fifty years. Half a century. Not of neglect by the community — of neglect by the system that is supposed to serve it.
Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community — in the Eha-Alumona corridor of Nsukka LGA, Enugu State — is a farming community that grows food for a region. It is a cultural community whose Omabe masquerade and New Yam Festival are living traditions of enormous heritage value. It is a community of mothers and children, of farmers and traders, of young people who are doing the math every year on whether to stay or leave.
And its only road has been cut by gully erosion for over fifty years.
🚑 When a mother goes into labour at midnight — the motorcycle that carries her to Eha-Alumona or Nsukka is her ambulance.
🌾 When a farmer fills his barn with yam at harvest time — the motorcycle is his truck, his logistics chain, his entire supply line.
🏫 When a child has to be in school by 7:30 am — the motorcycle is his school bus, in the rain, on the unpaved, eroded, seasonal-stream-for-a-road that connects the community to everything else.
2018: Governor Ugwuanyi came. He saw. He promised the road.
The community celebrated. 🎉
And then the waiting continued.
The roads that were promised — the Umabor-Agu Umabor link and the Eha-Eha Ndiagu-Mbu-Ikem corridor — are the lifelines not just of Eha-Azuabor but of an entire cluster of communities including Agu-Umabor, Breme, Eha-Ndiagu, and Ezebuanagu. Communities that feed Nsukka. Communities that pay taxes. Communities that vote.
Governor Peter Mbah's administration has outlined ambitious infrastructure targets for Enugu State. Eha-Azuabor's road is not an ambition. It is a debt.
📍 Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community | Eha-Alumona Corridor | Nsukka LGA | Enugu State
🌐 AutonomousCommunities.com — where communities document their needs and hold government to account
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💬 SHARE THIS POST. Tag your Enugu State representative. Tag @GovPeterMbah. Tag every infrastructure NGO and development partner working in Southeast Nigeria. Fifty years is enough. The road must be built. 🛣️👇
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"Communities largely cut off from their local government headquarters by erosion... roads only passable by motorcycles especially during the rains... cut off for over 50 years."
— Vanguard News, July 2018 🗞️
Fifty years. Half a century. Not of neglect by the community — of neglect by the system that is supposed to serve it.
Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community — in the Eha-Alumona corridor of Nsukka LGA, Enugu State — is a farming community that grows food for a region. It is a cultural community whose Omabe masquerade and New Yam Festival are living traditions of enormous heritage value. It is a community of mothers and children, of farmers and traders, of young people who are doing the math every year on whether to stay or leave.
And its only road has been cut by gully erosion for over fifty years.
🚑 When a mother goes into labour at midnight — the motorcycle that carries her to Eha-Alumona or Nsukka is her ambulance.
🌾 When a farmer fills his barn with yam at harvest time — the motorcycle is his truck, his logistics chain, his entire supply line.
🏫 When a child has to be in school by 7:30 am — the motorcycle is his school bus, in the rain, on the unpaved, eroded, seasonal-stream-for-a-road that connects the community to everything else.
2018: Governor Ugwuanyi came. He saw. He promised the road.
The community celebrated. 🎉
And then the waiting continued.
The roads that were promised — the Umabor-Agu Umabor link and the Eha-Eha Ndiagu-Mbu-Ikem corridor — are the lifelines not just of Eha-Azuabor but of an entire cluster of communities including Agu-Umabor, Breme, Eha-Ndiagu, and Ezebuanagu. Communities that feed Nsukka. Communities that pay taxes. Communities that vote.
Governor Peter Mbah's administration has outlined ambitious infrastructure targets for Enugu State. Eha-Azuabor's road is not an ambition. It is a debt.
📍 Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community | Eha-Alumona Corridor | Nsukka LGA | Enugu State
🌐 AutonomousCommunities.com — where communities document their needs and hold government to account
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
💬 SHARE THIS POST. Tag your Enugu State representative. Tag @GovPeterMbah. Tag every infrastructure NGO and development partner working in Southeast Nigeria. Fifty years is enough. The road must be built. 🛣️👇
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
#EhaAzuabor #EhaAlumona #FixTheRoad #NsukkaNigeria #EnuguState #GullyErosion #RuralNigeria #50YearsIsTooLong #InfrastructureNigeria #AutonomousCommunities #RoadAdvocacy #SDG9 #EhaAzuaborRoad #EnuguGovernor #NigeriaRoads
🚨 IN 2018, A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTED WHAT THE PEOPLE OF EHA-AZUABOR AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS ALREADY KNEW:
"Communities largely cut off from their local government headquarters by erosion... roads only passable by motorcycles especially during the rains... cut off for over 50 years."
— Vanguard News, July 2018 🗞️
Fifty years. Half a century. Not of neglect by the community — of neglect by the system that is supposed to serve it.
Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community — in the Eha-Alumona corridor of Nsukka LGA, Enugu State — is a farming community that grows food for a region. It is a cultural community whose Omabe masquerade and New Yam Festival are living traditions of enormous heritage value. It is a community of mothers and children, of farmers and traders, of young people who are doing the math every year on whether to stay or leave.
And its only road has been cut by gully erosion for over fifty years.
🚑 When a mother goes into labour at midnight — the motorcycle that carries her to Eha-Alumona or Nsukka is her ambulance.
🌾 When a farmer fills his barn with yam at harvest time — the motorcycle is his truck, his logistics chain, his entire supply line.
🏫 When a child has to be in school by 7:30 am — the motorcycle is his school bus, in the rain, on the unpaved, eroded, seasonal-stream-for-a-road that connects the community to everything else.
2018: Governor Ugwuanyi came. He saw. He promised the road.
The community celebrated. 🎉
And then the waiting continued.
The roads that were promised — the Umabor-Agu Umabor link and the Eha-Eha Ndiagu-Mbu-Ikem corridor — are the lifelines not just of Eha-Azuabor but of an entire cluster of communities including Agu-Umabor, Breme, Eha-Ndiagu, and Ezebuanagu. Communities that feed Nsukka. Communities that pay taxes. Communities that vote.
Governor Peter Mbah's administration has outlined ambitious infrastructure targets for Enugu State. Eha-Azuabor's road is not an ambition. It is a debt.
📍 Eha-Azuabor Autonomous Community | Eha-Alumona Corridor | Nsukka LGA | Enugu State
🌐 AutonomousCommunities.com — where communities document their needs and hold government to account
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
💬 SHARE THIS POST. Tag your Enugu State representative. Tag @GovPeterMbah. Tag every infrastructure NGO and development partner working in Southeast Nigeria. Fifty years is enough. The road must be built. 🛣️👇
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
#EhaAzuabor #EhaAlumona #FixTheRoad #NsukkaNigeria #EnuguState #GullyErosion #RuralNigeria #50YearsIsTooLong #InfrastructureNigeria #AutonomousCommunities #RoadAdvocacy #SDG9 #EhaAzuaborRoad #EnuguGovernor #NigeriaRoads
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