Inyaba Bridge: Signed, Sealed, Delivered


These two photographs were taken a few months apart at the same spot. The first paints a picture of despair and the second highlights the sort of pleasant change that a progressive vision can engender. The Inyaba River - ordinarily a natural boon to the locals' agrarian lifestyle - in Nkanu East has in large part been a nightmare for the 10 communities to which it is contiguous. The river overflows during rainy seasons, occasionally taking lives and destroying crops and the wooden structure that connects the many villages on both sides. This was the situation for decades. 
But the story has changed with the near completion of a concrete structure built by the Enugu State governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
That is is the power of vision!

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