Sir: The demand for a pedestrian bridge at Mgbarakuma/Apumirri market junction, Ubakala South Local Government Area of Abia State, has become a matter of urgent public importance.
Every other day, the said junction behind Mgbaraku, in-between Apumirri market, has caused so many serious casualties, as well as sending a lot of people to their early graves. These include both young and old whenever they are crossing the wide and well-paved expressway.
Where one of the ways leads to Aba, and the other heads to Umuahia town, the Capital territory of Abia State, therein lays the death trap, because there is no pedestrian bridge for the people or motorcycle riders to use.
The people of Mgbarakuma, particularly, always find their destinations through this very wide expressway, where their villages and homes have been located for decades. Let us believe that it might be that it escaped the minds of those who constructed the express road to build a pedestrian bridge for the people.
I, therefore, plead with the good government of Abia State, constituency representatives both in the Senate and House of Representatives, and the chairman of Ubakala South Umuahia Local Government Area of the State, to please do everything possible to save the people from untimely death on the expressway.
As the incoming government, let the pedestrian bridge be the first public assignment of the governor and its cabinet members for the people of Ubakala.
Okwuchi Onyegbule wrote from Lagos State.
