By Clara Obialazor
Serious concerns and condemnations have been expressed by artisans including both mechanics, welders, panel beaters and other stakeholders of the mechanic village, Oleh, headquarters of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, over what they described as total neglect and abandonment of its infrastructural deplorable state by the Isoko South Local Government Council Authority.
Condemnations and concerns have continued to trail the high level of abandonment of the Oleh mechanic village, particularly in the areas of lack of security, streetlights and an incomplete perimeter fence, ramshackle workshop shades, and dilapidated structures that have made the environment unsafe.
A visit to the Oleh mechanic village by The Isoko Nation investigation team last Thursday October 30, 2025, in a chat with the Chairman of the Village, Mr George Orife, lamented that the mechanic village lacks security, streetlights and an incomplete perimeter fence, which he said have made the environment unsecured.
According to the Chairman “there is no security, no streetlight and the fencing project they started, they didn’t complete it,” he said.
“We have several times, both in the tenure of the past executives of the mechanics village and in this current tenure, complained in writing and orally, to the council about the situation but nothing happened .
“Yet when it’s time to collect revenue, they will come. We even had to employ our own security to protect the place “.
Meanwhile, another insider source, a Mechanic, Mr. Uzezi Eduzobe, stated that the only benefit they have received from the government is the uncompleted, shabbily constructed internal road in the mechanic village.
“Apart from that, nothing else; no drainage, no light”, he lamented.
Also speaking, another source who do not want his name on print said “the Council’s authority has totally neglected their responsibility towards the mechanic village; they are always interested in collecting revenue from the village and execution of cosmetic projects only inside the Council premises”
However, as at the time of filing this report, all efforts to reach the council officials for comments were not successful.
