IRETO Road is a street in Sapele, famed timber capital of Nigeria. It is probably the safest neighborhood in the town and got its name from one Ireto, now late, the founder of Ireto Hotel now called Richards Continental Hotel, still one of the best hotels in Sapele. Ireto Road is a monument to underdevelopment, is flooded in the rainy season, a dust strip in the Harmattan, and perennially a road to hell for pedestrians and drivers alike.
The Sapele Local Government Area Council never bothers to even grade the road and for the residents of the neighborhood, to live there must be to feel victimized, isolated and roundly alienated from the rest of the world. In that regard they are hardly differentiated from a lot of other Nigerians, except for the circumstances responsible for the pathetic state of their road.
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