Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State, on Wednesday saidthe bad roads and lack of social amenities in Enugu Ukwu and Aguleri made himto cry in public. The governor disclosed this during the All ProgressivesGrand Alliance, APGA, governorship campaign rally in Anambra East. Soludo assured that if reelected his administration wouldnot leave anybody behind, stressing that everybody in the state will be carriedalong. He said: “The oldest man in Enugu Otu told me that theyneeded a tarred road, I was at Enugu Ukwu Aguleri. That’s the place that Icried. I cried there publicly and that’s because we drove to the place foralmost one and half hours and this is the worst road that I have ever seen. “I went on to ask a question, what if somebody was ill andhad an emergency by 1:00 am? I asked if they had a hospital and they said no, Iasked about pipe borne water, they said no, electricity they said no. “When I was going there the school children lined up alongthe road and they had cardboard papers listing out what they needed. Some ofthe schools didn’t have seats, chairs. Some said their roofs were leaking, somesaid they had no teachers, and all manner of things. “But the last time I visited Enugu Ukwu and Aguleri, at thesquare I saw solar powered borehole scheme running there. I saw some powerlines, I went there to commission a brand new general hospital with medicalpersonnel and doctors. “When I was going there the school children lined up butwere no longer displaying those list of problems, they were now along the roaddancing and saying welcome. “The first time I went I cried but the second time I went Ilaughed. I used this as an illustration because of the terrain there, to doroads there is very expensive. You can’t go to a people and say there is nohope, ours is to give hope.”
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