Welcome To Abuja, The Capital City Of Uncovered Manholes
Pothole Is To Lagos What Manhole Is To Abuja… As a newbie in Abuja, I had looked forward to an exciting experience spending some time in the Federal Capital Territory. Coming from Lagos State, the commercial hub of the country, everything in the capital city looked quite different and my mannerism apparently proved it. There were no ‘danfos’ and ‘molues’ with loud drivers and nagging conductors silently praying that passengers would forget their balances. Everybody seemed to be calm, responsible and everything but loud. There were no traffic jams and the roads looked beautifully tarred, unlike the potholes that ‘adorn’ the roads of Lagos like some ugly bracelet. ‘This must really be a cool place’, I thought. The people seemed quite nice and welcoming but there was one scary loophole — The Manholes splattered all over the roads. Like the spots on a leopard’s skin, virtually every road in the capital city has a fair share of uncovered manholes. It instilled a huge fea...