The Late Satyagraha and Social Crusader, Tai Solarin, in one of his anecdotal portrayals posited that, “the hand of an elderly man cannot enter the gourd and the child cannot carry it. It therefore behooves both of them to get out the content of the gourd and to carry it forward through co-operation”.
The lack of co-operation between governments and most corporations in the execution of corporate social responsibilities have precipitated structural and developmental anarchical entropy in Delta State and nay Nigeria. Although, Section 14 subsection 2(b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Fundamental Objectives and the Directive Principles of State Policy states that, “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of Government”.
But the blatant lackadaisicality of most Corporate and or Companies in the discharge of their Corporate social responsibilities remains grotesquely recondite. Glaringly shameful cases are the gullies, static flood water and sandy dunes opposite Sterling Bank, Zenith Bank by Odibo Estate, Donasulu Company, Stanbic Bank, Heritage/Agape Church along the Warpri/Effurun Sapele Road, PTI Road opposite PHCN’s Office, Giwa-Amu by Okere Ugborikoko Road, Giwa-Amu by Apala Junction, Giwa-Amu by Eta Junction, Ginuwa Road opposite Johnson & Jones Chemist, Old Walfare Road, Radio Road by Igbudu Market.
These are horrendously deadly scenarios are reenacted along the Airport Road by Union Bank, Pegofor, Isoko Plant Hire Company, Opposite Awenayeri Filling Station, Amju Bank, Ogborikoko Market, Fortune Bank, Greener Line Filling Station, opposite Cambridge School, Kosini Junction, Ogunu by Angle Park, Roundabout/ Junction opposite Angle Park, opposite Federal Government College, opposite Rewane Villa/ Mobile Police Quarters Okere/Urhobo Junction, the express road through Ugbuwangue to the NPA gate and all its adjoining roads. Most companies in delta state are not alive to their corporate social responsibilities.
The main Express bye pass is an eyesore as the express road is dotted by portholes and the murderously reckless parking of Petrol Tankers after the Army Barrack along the major thoroughfare has been the cause of needless loss of lives and avoidable accidents. The airport road junction roundabout is a veritable hitler’s gulag.
This porthole drama is virtually epitomized in ¾’s of Effurun and Warri Areas. The absence of culverts and central drainage systems in Effurun/Warri Roads has further compounded the state of the roads and the bitumen surfacing are easily washed away during torrential rains.
We call on all Corporate/Companies/Bodies, individuals to work in unison with the Uduaghan road construction drive to ensure a broad spectral outreach to the citizenry. Uduaghan can do better by constructing culverts/drainage facilities in most of the roads he has done. A simple move to macadamize and fill them will go along way.
Finally, organizing Neanderthal thanksgiving services in Churches for Flood short circuiting for 2013 is antediluvian, pristine and escapist. Uduaghan must focus on massive construction of roads, drainages and bridges working in unison with corporate bodies to forestall floods and untold hardship for motorist and pedestrians. He must be palpably pragmatic and Hanibalistic. Labore re et erare
(TO WORK IS TO PRAY).
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
MANDATE AGAINST POVERTY (MAP)
WARRI. 08023250378
