Beautification of Benin City: Heralding A New Dawn

FOR some weeks now, there has been serious work at the King Square, otherwise known as Ring road, the work that we have been expecting (Beautification), and the work that most of us know will put glamour in the face of the “Ancient City” (Benin City).
Talking about the “ancient city” Benin City is known as the ancient city for several reasons which includes that first of all, Benin City is one of the oldest city in the world, secondly, because of her numerous monuments which cannot be quantified, her monuments are so unique.
Indeed she is an ancient city, which deserve the best in all ramification, so the plans of the state Governor to beautify the state, turning Benin City into glamorous ancient city which some part has been challenges with flood coming out with unimaginable look, where grasses and flowers will surrounds the King square, trees will be planted to protect our environment and add value “to the ancient city”.
It should be recalled that beautification of the state is part of the plans of the State Government to restore the state back to its original Master Plan. In ensuring this task, the State Government has to make machineries available for the job, which includes creating a task force to forestall street trading in the state metropolis especially around the Ring road area which is the Eye of the city. The eye of the city in the sense that the King Square (also known as Ring Road) links to almost all the major roads in the town, major road which includes, Akpakpava road, Mission road, Ekenwan road, Sapele road, Airport Road, Sakponba road, Forestry road and Plymouth road.
You can now understand, when we describe the Ring road as the “eye of the city”. Though some areas in the state metropolis, will be beautified but at the moment, attention, infact maximum attention is been given to Ring road area.
Some times in life, when we see innovation, it is difficult to believe that it’s a timely innovation until when the dividend becomes “visible”. In few months from now, people will find it difficult to believe that this is Benin City especially when they gets to some major junctions in the state metropolis, where flowers, grasses, trees and all gaggets to bring the “Real Beauty” of the state out is mounted.
There is going to be a dual fencing on the flowers to protect the flowers from been step upon which he said the fence will be erected with net which help to prevent people entering the places where the flower and grasses will be planted.
People will not be allowed to park at the Ring road so as not to damage the planted flowers, grasses or trees; and any vehicle that its parked on the areas where beautification is going on (Ring road) will be impounded and the owner of such vehicle will be made to pay fine for obstruction. Before the fine, the owner of the vehicle will have to face the mobile court for breaching the law on obstruction.
Some persons are not finding the herald of the new Dawn easy as some of them usually complain that “where we stop is usually too far from where the Ring road that we actually came to. We have to trek some distance, you know, its not easy”. Change is painful but if necessary, lets try to adapt with this herald of new Dawn, beautification need to succeed, if the vehicles keep coming to Ring road to load and off-load passengers, the beautification will not be noticed as we all known what will happened to the flowers that will be planted, and it could frustrate the beautification which has to do with bringing out the Benin City Master Plan, and we all know.
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