ONITSHA – Anambra State is the entry point from South West and South South States of Edo and Delta States, to South East. Onitsha is also strategic for its commercial and business activities and manufacturing which take place particularly in Nnewi.
This has bequeathed Onitsha and Nnewi the names ‘commercial’ and ‘industrial’ city respectively. One thing, however, that has made the state difficult to live in and carry out these commercial and industrial business activities is lack of good roads, particularly the federal roads that crisscross the cities, leading to other South East states of Imo and Enugu states.Travelling within or through Anambra roads to other South East states is like embarking on a suicide mission and self-punishment. Sometimes when people want to embark on a journey through some of the federal roads in the state and remember the suffering they have to go through, especially on the Onitsha-Owerri Road from Upper Iweka leading to Imo State and Onitsha-Awka-Enugu Road leading to Enugu State, they are discouraged.Almost all the federal roads in the state – Onitsha-Enugu Road, Onitsha-Otuocha Adani Enugu Road, Onitsha-Ihiala-Owerri Road, Ihiala-Orlu Road, Umuahia, Nnewi-Okigwe, Nnewi-Ekwulobia-OkoUmunze roads – are currently death traps. For motorists and passengers, passing through these roads are similar to passing through the biblical valleys of the shadows of death.
Onitsha-Ihiala-Owerri Road, Ihiala-Orlu Road, Umuahia, Nnewi-Okigwe
