COMMUNITY SERVICE: Egelesor Youths Construct Speed
Breakers Along Kess Momoh Road
“We are Curbing Crashes” _Babs
By: Jeremiah Enaholo Kadiri
jeremiahkadiri@gmail.com
Youths of Egelesor
quarters of Auchi Sacred Kingdom have embarked on creation of speed breakers on
the newly constructed Kessington Momoh road on Sunday.
It
was gathered that the initiative was borne from the fact that road accidents in
the area have heightened in recent times as a result of the non availability of
speed limiting measures for vehicle and Okada
riders.
Led
by Abdulwahab Jimah AKA Kabasa, the younger Brother of Tpl. Dr. Sanusi Jimah, Rector
of Auchi Polytechnic, the group had deemed it important to carry out a
community development service of helping to check the incessant road crashes and
its adverse effects on the new road by raising resources through voluntary
contributions from shop owners, churches, private schools and other well
meaning individuals in Egelesor and along the main road which runs from beside
Royal Block at sharp corner to Setraco junction along Warrake road.
Speaking
to AUCHI BLOGSPOT, one of the boys
who prefers to be addressed as Legend stated
that road users have had their fair share of problems arising from accidents on
the road lately, especially in the morning on school days when parents are in a
hurry to drop off their children in schools.
“We are contributing our quota to the
development of the community. You know there are lots of children attending
schools in our area and they are either coming from the Sharp Corner axis or
from Warrake road. The speed at which Okada
riders ply this route is very high and this led to an accident that claimed the
teeth of a child who was on his way to one of the schools here. We could not
bear the scene nor did we want to have a repeat of same that’s why we came up
with the idea of going round the neighborhood to source for funds with which we
got the materials we are using to
construct these speed breakers.” He said.
Babs, the owner of Aim
Printers in his remark appreciated the youths for the good work being done
and stated that when he was contacted by the boys he made sure that he gave
them the the needed support and even mobilized others to key into the work.
“This is very very nice I must say. Vehicles
and motorcycles run carelessly on this road and this has had adverse effects on
the people here. We don’t want to have a situation where life will be lost to
careless driving along this path that is why the youths have taken it upon
themselves to ensure that something is done and as you can see, they are doing
a beautiful job.
We were able to garner resources from
people in and around this place and not surprisingly, everyone we met has
contributed generously to the project. Some gave us money to buy materials
while others gave us bags of cement and tools of the job.” He concluded.
Achipoko, road user appreciated the youths’ initiative and
stated that this will in no small measure help to curb crashes especially
accidents involving kids who are either going to school or on errands.
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