By Christopher Odamah
A Warri-based lawyer, Barrister Jah’sWill Onyemah-Iwe has appealed to the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa to do away with the Warri Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.
Speaking in Warri, Delta State with our correspondent in an exclusive interview recently, the legal practitioner said that the Warri BRT was a good idea initiated by the former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, but lamented that its abandonment was bringing untold hardship to the people.
“The project, which is aimed at creating jobs, will also, require personnel and business transactions in the areas of traffic management and enforcement, bus shelters and terminals and segregated lanes constructions has be dashed in the air,” he said.
Barrister Onyemah-Iwe said that since the project became a mirage one and he called on Governor Okowa to do away with the Warri BRT project, saying the Warri/Sapele road had been bastardized as a result of the abandoned project.
According to him, “If you recount the number of lives that had been lost in that road, the number of vehicles that have been destroyed; travelling from Enerhen Junction to Jakpa Junction takes about three to four hours due to the deplorable state of the road.”
The project, he said was a figment of the imagination of the immediate past administration, imploring Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to return the road to its original state without further delay.
