Buhari Visit Sapele Road

FIRST of all our president, I salue your military discipline, courage, bravery and disciplined swagger which have helped you to become president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, today. The cap fits you on all scores.
Several commentators have compared you to Abraham Lincoln, a former US Presidnet, who passed on in 1865. Certainly, the comparison is appropriate. However, there is a missing link in it. It is that Abraham Lincoln tried for many years to be a congress man, vice-president and president in America in that chronological sequence without success, initially. Eventually, fortune smiled on him. He became president of America without an incremental staggered climb from the bottom to the top.
Buhari’s case, he was luckier. At no time did he want to become a lawmaker or vice-president of Nigeria. He only had his sights focused on being Nigeria’s president since 2003. Twelve years later, he achieved his goal at 72. At work here are the products of his audacious autosuggestion and divine intervention.
Another issue during his tenure, Abraham Lincoln was able to stop slavery in America. Like him, our expectation is that Buhari would fight indiscipline to a standstill because it is indiscipline that begets corruption. Fortunately enough, he has accurately identify the problem of corruption a child of indiscipline by his statement that if corruption is not killed, it would kill Nigeria.
Given Buhari’s commitment to fighting indiscipline/corruption, I am inviting him to visit SAPELE ROAD, BENIN as soon as possible, no delay. On arrival, take a painstaking tour to a section of this road between Conoil Filing Station and the access road leading to the Federal Government Power transmission station near Santana market on the left-hand side of Sapele Road, Benin.
More specifically, start off from the gate of Technology Incubation Centre, Benin which is sharing the same premises with Edo Pharmaceutical Company both the centre and company face Conoil Filing Station beside which is a road leading to Western Homeville Hotel, Benin.
Good. Now from the gate of Technology Incubation Centre, Benin start to examine the earthwork used to support that section of Sapele Road, Benin. When you do this, you will discover that all the small concrete drains designed to carry flood water from the road to the bottom of the pit under the road have all been destroyed!!
The hidden destruction of the drains is massive. It stretches from the earthwork beginning from the gate of Technology Incubation Centre, Benin to the access road on the left of Sapele Road leading to the Federal Government power transmission station. At the open Agbonavbere Road/Sapele Road T-Junction, the road damage was however repaired to avoid public awareness of the havoc done to the Sapele Road, Benin’s drains.
Because of the destruction done to the drains on the blind side of the road, it is now threatened. Flood water on the road now drains off very close to the road surface instead of far into the bottom pit underneath the road. Invariably, the flood water from this section of Sapele Road, Benin degrades the integrity of the earthwork each time it rains while the scorching sun and other inclement weathering factors completes the rout of the road.
The earthwork has been undergoing structural degradation since 2009 when a company laid a gas pipeline from Delta to Edo State using the environmental corridor provided by the earthwork of Sapele Road, Benin. Impliedly, the erosion of the road’s earthwork has been going on for six whole years now. I called attention to the menace in 2009 but no one listened to me. So, I had to mind my business. However, because a disciplinarian like president Muhammadu Buhari is today in office, the need to resurrect the issue struck me. Methinks that even when Buhari is in a noisy market he will hear you when you call his attention to scary matters of indiscipline at home in Abuja or far away in the 36 states of the federation.
What we now have in our hands on Sapele Road, Benin reminds one of the impunity of comprador capitalist multinational companies operating in Nigeria with the conspiracy of our mechanists unpatriotic countrymen. Imagine, an international company was contracted by the federal government to lay a gas pipeline from Delta through Edo State to other states of the federation. The contract imposed the conditionalities of adhering to the extant Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act, as well as the reconstruction of all damages done to public utilities on the pipelines right of way.
Yet, the company carried out its approved contract without bothering  to repair the concrete drains built for channeling surface flood water away from the Sapele Road, Benin. The result is that the road would in future certainly be washed away by gully erosions contrived by the company’s corporate irresponsibility.
Put simply, Queen Ede Gully erosion sites are in the making along a section of Sapele Road, Benin. Remember, the gully erosion sites which are costing Edo State Government million of dollars to reclaim, were caused by a poor civil engineering design of the Benin Asaba Express Road. This time around, the design of the Sapele Road, Benin is perfect but an imperfection was introduced into the road through a structural breach by a fraudulent gas pipeline laying multinational company.
Of course, the rains have come and so the vegetative cover on the earthwork supporting the road would prevent an eagle with sharp vision from seeing the damaged concrete drains. Therefore, Buhari don’t be in a hurry during the tour of the road. Bid your time. Do a slow, thorough check. Behold, you would see the destroyed drains on the road’s earthwork architecture supporting the road.
The damage done to the Sapele Road drains, perhaps, is a harbinger of a worse scenario of more destruction wrought elsewhere by the gas pipeline-laying company while carrying out its contract. For this reason, Buhari should do a holistic re-appraisal of the environmental impact assessment of the contract awarded to this company. A stitch in time saves nine.
Buhari, I repeat visit Sapele Road, Benin to see firsthand a sampler of the atrocious way a bourgeois capitalist multinational executed a gas pipeline –laying contract. This is one opportunity to demonstrate your profound statement: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”. Sai Buhari!! Say Discipline!!! We are waiting for you.