Unizik axis of Enugu-Onitsha expressway

I stumbled on a press statement credited to one Comrade Josiah Peter Oche who prides himself as Chairman of the Joint Council Leaders of the Universities where he made several attempts to drag the pragmatic and responsive Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi over what he termed as incompetence and failed leadership.

Oche in his statement was quoted to be calling on students nationwide to proceed on nationwide protest on the 4th February 2026 over failed portions of the Federal roads across the country. The boy failed to establish various salient points in his paid job on the alleged incompetence on the side of the Honourbale Minister of Works.

He even went ahead to list some of the roads especially those crisscrossing federal and state owned universities and included the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka where I live. Oche said the Federal road, Enugu-Awka-Obitsha in front of unizik is impassable.

This singular statement credited to Oche has not only betrayed his assignment which is simply to blackmail the Minister and demarket his performance as the Minister of Works but also opened a special angle into his other motives.

I took a walk down to the Unizik permanent site gate where Oche listed as a death trap because of the Federal road and had a first hand information as you can see. The road is not only in a very solid state, the other lane which has been abandoned over a decade has also been fixed by RCC and work is still going on.

Oche and his likes said:
“A coalition of Nigerian student leaders under the auspices of the Joint Council Leadership Students, have commenced mobilisation of students nationwide to protest what they described as deplorable condition of federal roads across the country, leading to recurring deaths of students and other Nigerians.

In a joint statement on Sunday in Abuja by the Chairman of the Council who doubles as the President, National Association of University Students (NAUS), Comrade Josiah Peter Oche, President, National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), Comrade Eshiofune Paul Oghayan, and President, National Association Of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES), Comrade Isaac Kur Ushahemba, said most of the federal highways are death traps, claiming lives almost on daily basis as a result of their deplorable condition.

These video and photos were made this morning by my humble self just as a little response to the paid lies by Oche and his Co travellers against the Honourbale Minister of Works. A more detailed response will be issued on this. Let it be known that the Honourbale Minister of Works is not cowed by such significant blackmail.

He believes, youths as leaders of tomorrow and as students must be upright and stay through to their overwhelming responsibilities as leaders of tomorrow. They must be of good behavior, both in learning and in character and escheew being used by desperate politicians to cause confusion.

Emmanuel Uzor