No human being will drive through the Benin-Sapele-Warri section of the East-West Road, a federal highway that links the six South-South states without crying for the Niger Delta, and the country.
Even cows, goats, fowl, and other animals that traders convey in the several trucks from the northern part of the country that had broken down on the dilapidated road would protest the repulsion. The segment from Benin City, the capital of Edo State to the oil city of Warri, the commercial nerve center of Delta State is strategically important because if it collapses, four other states- Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, and Cross-Rivers States will be cut off. That is exactly the situation now.
Many a time, an epic tragedy has to shatter the peace of the nation for the government to distinguish that things are not the way a privileged few running the country want others to perceive a situation from their tapered prism.