TEARS, COMPLAINS AS OKOROCHA DEMOLISHES OWERRI BANK ROAD

It was free flow of tears on Friday and Saturday, respectively, as bulldozers and other destruction equipment stormed The ever busy bank road in Owerri, the Imo State capital, demolishing parameter fences, housing financial institutions in the state capital .

The demolition, the government through the chief press secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo had said was the Governor Rochas Okorocha's Urban Renewal program, which was aimed at beautifying the state capital.

The equipment with stern looking men, arrived busy road and proceeded in demolishing the fences of Eco Bank, Rochas foundation building, Zenith and access banks, and others, respectively.  Other structures closer to the tarred road were also brought to the rubble by the rampaging machines.  People, especially staff members of the financial institutions watched helpless, as the structures were brought down.

The demolition exercise equally caused major traffic gridlocks within Okigwe, Wetheral, Mbari, government and bank road - roads.