Keke, Rochas, Rounds-about And Poverty In Heartland

Keke, Okoroch, Rounds-about And Poverty In Heartland

A first time visitor to Owerri, Heartland State capital, will notice two features which have become the city's signpost. Now, hold your horses before they go haywire; the three wheelers (keke) and scores of rounds about that have become the town's constant feature. They seem to be the only eloquent achievement of the moufler-wearing Governor, Rochas Okorocha. Before you come back to a road junction you just passed, a round about has been constructed.
As for keke, don't go there! They aim to out do jeeps, heavy duty trucks, trailers and the like. The operators are ever hell bent on pushing any other road user out of the way with vehemence coupled with verbal abuses should anyone dare call them to order.
In all of this, it is the breeding of debilitating poverty, deprivation and denial of the peoples' rights that one feels. Keke operator is only being kept busy; being given the feeling that he will finish paying his debt occasioned by the hire purchase status of his keke.
But unbeknown to him, as he keeps plying the Owerri streets in his over-loaded and over-flogged keke, the life span depreciates faster; by the time he completes payment, the damned keke is no more and back to square zero.

CAN'T GOV. OKOROCHA DO BETTER THAN KEKE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ROUNDS ABOUT? ARE THERE NO BETTER WAYS OF EMPOWERING OUR YOUTHS RATHER THAN MAKING THEM KEKE OPERATORS?