Okowa Rebuffs Obo River Bridge Collapse

Post created on 4:50 pm

Delta state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said reports of a bridge collapse at Obo River on the Ogwashi-Uku – Kwale road was untrue.

Okowa stated this during an unscheduled inspection of the project and said the road, currently being dualized, caved in at a small spot by the river, on Monday but was quickly fixed.

He explained that the challenge occured when a diversion created for the construction of a bridge on the road overwhelmed the temporary channel, causing it to erode the soil and culverts underneath.

According to the governor, the incident at Obo River is not a collapsed bridge. It’s actually a collapsed road; not the bridge itself because the bridge is just about to be constructed.