Mburubu is one of the communities in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State that has suffered negligence and abandonment by successive governments in the state.
The community is one of the food baskets of the state. one of the largest producers of palm oil, garri, cassava, yam and timber; a largely agrarian community, and with many of its sons and daughters thriving in different spheres across the globe.yet the government has abandoned the community.
Notwithstanding,the state government’s promises, the community lack basic infrastructure,just like most rural communities of the state.
Thus, this neglect has increased poverty, because they cannot move their produce to the urban markets to sell because of the terrible state of their roads and absolute lack of government presence.
In order to access their homes, the community has resorted to construction of bambooo bridges
The lack of infrastructure becomes obvious when traveling from Nara – Mburubu to Nomeh by either foot,okada or vehicle.
A common terrible
experience is the clay and muddy roads, which is very slippery and dangerous. Other sights are rusty iron bridges and handmade bamboo bridges annually done by the villagers to enable them access their homes. The iron bridges were constructed during the civil war for military exigencies.
The bridges are damaged, the roads unmotorable and abandoned by government. Therefore, it takes only individual efforts to fix the bridges and roads for the dwellers.
Rural areas in Enugu State are regarded as lethargic, low in income and low in productivity. Government is only concerned with urban development and urban renewal programmes to the neglect of the rural areas.
This problem is primarily due to government’s non sustainable policy action towards rural transformation, which is responsible for the poor state of affairs among rural dwellers in the state.
The Ugwuanyi administration seem unperturbed with this malady of rural underdevelopment in Enugu State.
