BY: SHALLON S. GONLOR
NIMBA COUNTY — As part of the Chief Executive Officer of Jungle Water Group of Investment’s service to humanity commitment to improve human livelihoods across Liberia, residents of Sanniquellie, Nimba County are now benefitting from the ongoing upgrade to major roads in the city.
It can be recalled during the rainy season, several streets and roads leading to homes and institutional infrastructures, including Nimba University were completely destroyed as the result of heavy downpours of rain.
The dilapidated conditions of these roads became a pressing concern for students, residents, and the workforce in the private and public sectors.
The stretch of road from Police Station View to the University Campus including several other communities was in disarray, marked by numerous potholes and uneven surfaces that pose significant challenges for daily commuters.
Following the road grading, residents who spoke to reporters praised the Jungle Water Group of Investment’s CEO, Mr. Tomah Seh Floyd, Sr. commitment to infrastructural development within their areas.
Mr. Tomah Seh Floyd, Sr.’s ongoing humanitarian relief service to rehabilitate damaged community roads shocked residents, as commendations poured out on him.
Currently, diesel caterpillars are seen working and reopening major roads and streets linking several homes and institutions in Sanniquellie City to have easy access.
Some residents of communities in Sanniquellie commended Mr. Floyd for his swift intervention and repairs of the dilapidated community roads.
The initiative, which aimed at complementing Humanitarian Doctor Floyd’s developmental strides in the county, has seen to the repair of roads in the county’s capital, Sanniquellie.
The road leading to Nimba University, one of the busy roads for students and locals in the city, had been in bad shape over the years, neglected by successive authorities of the university administration.
The University Campus road and other roads became nightmares to residents and visitors after key government authorities paid deaf ears to repeated calls to fix the roads.
Recently, it was an embarrassing situation when a four-door runner Toyota land cruiser belonging to Nimba County District#4 Representative Ernest Manseah got sucked in the mud while crossing to go to the Nimba University campus.
However, reporters, who visited the area on Monday reported that the plight of the road users and commuters in the area has been consigned to history.
Residents and motorists have raised a sigh of relief. The main roads connecting several parts of the city, including the road leading to the university, from the junction at the police station have been repaired and are in use. Motorists now drive smoothly on the road without let or hindrance.
Motorists and residents of the area are now in a celebration mood, raining praises and pouring blessings on the Jungle Water Group of Investment board and management, especially itsCEO, Dr. Tomah Seh Floyd, Sr.
Speaking on behalf of the residents, a youth of Sanniquellie, Rickson Quai talked about how it has become easy for himself and his citizens to easily move after the intervention.
“We are happy that Mr. Tomah has come to our aid. We have been suffering over the months of the rainy season, facing the challenges of bad roads. Our appeals to some authorities for these road repairs fell on deaf ears.”
Rickson said, “Initially we thought the roads were being repaired by the government because we didn’t see anything to suggest that a private individual or company could be responsible. We only got to know that ‘Nimba County Breadbasket’, Chief Floyd Tomah asked his company to do this (repair of roads) for us in Sanniquellie.”
“We are so grateful to him for this rare show of humanity. We are poor people, we don’t have anything to offer Chief Tomah, other than to pray for him and his team that God continues to grant them robust health and abundant prosperity,” Quai added.
Amos Saye, a motorcyclist said: “All well-to-do citizens should emulate Tomah, saying “We have been suffering and begging for help on the roads for years to no avail but God has finally heard and answered our prayers through Tomah. If all wealthy citizens behave the way Mr. Floyd does by being public-spirited and philanthropic, Liberia would have been a better place. They should emulate him.”
“We are indeed very grateful to Mr. Tomah. We pray God to continue to preserve him in good health and grant him long life to enable him to continue to serve humanity,” the university graduate turned motorcyclist further stated.
Meanwhile, CEO Tomah Floyd said: “The interventions to gray those major roads damaged during the rainy season aimed to enable local citizens to have easy access to the road leading to their homes, forming part of his community outreach services.”
“I never thought of briefing the media on this initiative. I wanted for the public self to look at the work and thereafter come up with their positive and negative criticism. Whenever these kind-hearted developments are undertaken to help humanity in any form, I don’t like to advertise or go to the public to announce what I have done or doing.”
“I always want to keep my humanitarian interventions in the lives of the people from the public domain because I believe that God gave me the little resources to help humanity”, CEO Tomah Floyd laminated.
