Obi Aguocha: You Can’t Tackle A Road Erosion Site With ₦1,800,000 – By Ndumele Ifeanyichukwu

Obi Aguocha: You Can’t Tackle A Road Erosion Site With ₦1,800,000 – By Ndumele Ifeanyichukwu

Let’s be sincere to ourselves.

The road erosion is not a pothole. It’s not a gutter that you can patch with sand and cement. It’s a full-blown gully erosion site that is deep, expanding, and swallowing the road every rainy season.

So how can ₦1,800,000 fix it?

Let’s do the breakdown:

1. Site Assessment & Engineering
You need a civil engineer to survey the site, measure the depth, flow of water, and soil type. That alone will take part of the money.

2. Materials Needed
– Sharp sand & plaster sand: Several trips
– Cement: Hundreds of bags
– Iron rods, boulders, retaining wall blocks
– Drainage pipes / concrete channel
– Heavy equipment hire: Excavator, tipper

With current market price, ₦1.8 million cannot even buy enough cement and stones to build a proper retaining wall for one side of that gully.

3. Labour & Machine
You need to hire excavator per day (₦120k – ₦150k), labourers, bricklayers, and a site supervisor for at least 2-3 weeks.

4. Drainage is the Real Solution
Erosion is caused by water. If you don’t channel the water properly with a standard drainage, whatever you pour there will be washed away in one heavy rain. A standard drainage channel for a site like that road will cost several millions on its own.

The Truth:
₦1,800,000 can do at most 2-5% of the work. It can clear the bush, do minor sand filling, or buy a few trips of sand. It cannot stop erosion.

What the road needs is a proper government intervention, with engineers from the Ministry of Works, NEWMAP, or a construction company. This is a multi-million naira project, not a community self-help patch.

If we use ₦1.8m there now, in 3 months the rain will wash everything away and we will be back to square one, and the money will be wasted.

Let us channel that ₦1.8m to something it can actually complete, and continue to appeal to Abia State Government to take over the Ameke Ibeku erosion site as an ecological emergency.

We need a permanent solution, not a temporary patch.

You cant deceive us with this eye service and fire brigade approach just because election is by the corner

We are wiser

Ndumele Ifeanyichukwu
(HolyPriest Ibeku)