Okowa, Obiano, FRSC move to end nightmares on Niger Bridge
The annual nightmare experienced by commuters heading to the South-East during yuletide seasons would be a thing of the past this year (2016), as the governors of Delta State (Ifeanyi Okowa) and Anambra State (Willie Obiano) with the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, have assured road users of hitch-free flow of traffic.
Briefing the press after a closed-door meeting that lasted about 40 minutes, the trio said they were concerned that commuters spent a lot of man-hours on the road during the yuletide because of gridlock.
Okowa said, “It was a very successful meeting; we discussed a lot of issues concerning security and free flow of movement for people travelling to the South East.
“You know that it was important for effective collaboration between Delta State and neighbouring states in different areas and we agreed on so many areas, especially on security and how to ensure that there will be free movement during the yuletide.”
He added, “we cannot disclose security measures that we have put in place, but, I can assure you that as it concerns movement to the South-East during the yuletide, we have agreed on measures to tackle the challenges of free flow of movement and with the collaboration between the two state governments and road safety, travellers will be happy travelling for Christmas.”
Governor Obiano said, “Our concern is about ‘Ndi Anambra’. We discussed about the decongestion of the Niger Bridge during the Christmas season and also discussed what will benefit us economically because, you can not wish away the fact that there are a lot of Ndi Anambra residing in Delta State and Deltans are also, doing business in Anambra State.”
“There will be free flow of movement on the Niger Bridge,” Governor Obiano said while the FRSC Boss, stated, “we agreed on a number of issues, and I can assure you that broken down vehicles would be removed from the highways while other security measures have also been agreed on.”