By Emma Amaize, Warri
HUNDREDS of residents of Beneku community in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State have been sacked from their homes by flood, caused by deplorable condition of major and link roads in the town.

Angered by the development, the youths took to the street, last week, in protest, asking the state government to call the oil company, the Nigeria Agip Oil Company to order, saying the roads were constructed without drainage by the contractors..

President-general of the Beneku Progressive Association, BPA, Comrade Emmanuel Chukwulolu, stated that the roads, approved and sponsored by the oil company were not executed to required standard.

He pointed out that the 4,046 kilometers virgin road and the 7.6 kilometer road linking Beneku town and the Agip gas plant at Okpai road were poorly executed and that efforts to make the company to adhere to the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, entered into with the people since 2003 have proved abortive.

Chairman of the Beneku Development Committee, Mr. Edwin Azubuike, who spoke to newsmen on the protest, said the projects were executed below standard and specifications and urged Delta State government to prevail on Agip to compel the contractors to do a good job by constructing drainage.