Who is to blame for the malfunctioning traffic
lights that cause terrible traffic jams at major junctions around the city
of Warri?
Who is to blame for the non-functioning street lights
that make the city dark at night?
We can resort to finger-pointing at the Government, Residents with bad driving habits bashing their cars on slabs or on the poles of the light, epileptic power supply, natural causes etc, many will argue that the current state of traffic and street lights is caused by the Government in the sense that, these facilities are either suffering from power failure, electrical or technical failures, broken bulbs and poles, as a result of poor maintenance which of course is the responsibility of the government to conduct routine and emergency maintenance on the lights.
We can resort to finger-pointing at the Government, Residents with bad driving habits bashing their cars on slabs or on the poles of the light, epileptic power supply, natural causes etc, many will argue that the current state of traffic and street lights is caused by the Government in the sense that, these facilities are either suffering from power failure, electrical or technical failures, broken bulbs and poles, as a result of poor maintenance which of course is the responsibility of the government to conduct routine and emergency maintenance on the lights.
The life span of traffic light bulbs used to be
more than a year or more but because of the greedy mindset of our business and unaccountable administration bulbs, poles, electrical panels with poor or
low quality are used with no long term plan on power supply.
Most of the street lights in Warri stopped working
when this new administration took over. The lights were powered by diesel
generators that were housed along the roads, which of course is a terrible idea
from the start and the logical explanation is, maybe the
government contracted the street lights to private contractors and I am wondering
why such a short term plan. (Greed/selfishness).
The traffic lights at Jakpa Junction, one of the
most busy and volatile section in the city has been bad for days and nobody
seems to care. It’s unfortunate that, this is the same road that Uvwie local
government Executives and workers take to the secretariat, even if they are
have not been informed about this, why have they not initiated an action to
address the issue, surely they have seen and are aware of the situation.
The sad thing about the Jakpa and Enerhen junction is that, every day we see
young men harassing people on the road that they are over the traffic line,
if i may asked, who employed these people? Is there a way they can be recruited
to work as traffic officer and ensure they work at night to reduce night traffic
offenders? just thinking.
The problem with the street and traffic lights in
Warri can be heaped on the government, but #newwarri is not a city of
finger-pointing or blame game, it’s a city where solutions are suggested and
worked on together.
The city can be lighted before this yuletide if the
government acts, if we talk about it, if we do something about it, if
information gets to the right place on time, yes of course we can do something
about it.
Join the movement for a
#newwarri
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