LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Lunatics have taking over modern bus-stops erected in strategic places in Asaba, Delta State capital.
Modern bus stops erected across strategic locations in Asaba, Delta State by the last administration in the state has become an abode of mentally deranged people who hung dirty clothes and rags on the rail and mount heaps of rubbish in it.
The bus stops include Ekumeku Bus Stop near Inter Bau roundabout, Asaba, High Court and State Secretariat bus stops, both along Okpanam road, French Language and Abraka Market bus stops.
A tricycle operator, Mr. Dennis Okonji said passengers are not found at the bus stops but wait in all kinds of places.
He added that if the fear of haggard and dangerously looking mad people in the bus-stop will scare any passenger from waiting at the bus-stops.
He questioned: “who will the passengers be waiting for when the motorists do not recognize the bus stops?”
He observed that “even the mass transit buses provided by the state government are loading in places not designated as bus stops such as Ogbeogonogo Market and around Ibusa junction, Asaba.”
In another development, Professor Ebie Street, a popular area in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State has been rendered impassable by heaps of refuse and flooding which washed away large portions of the road.
While the heaps of refuse was blamed on street trading on the road, the flooding was occasioned by the absence of drainage in the area.
During a recent inspection of the road, the Minority Leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Festus Okoh, who is representing Ika South Constituency, decried the level of deterioration and promised to mount pressure on those concerned so as to save residents of the area from further suffering.