Residents of Victoria say that they are surprised by the scope of repair works the Ministry of Public Infrastructure is carrying out on their main access road and are encouraging other communities to “stand up for their rights” as a result.
When the residents of the village armed themselves with placards and took to the front of their village to protest the state of the road, they did not expect the ministry, and the government by extension, to address their issue as quickly as they did, one resident related to Stabroek News yesterday.
The residents had started a protest on September 20, a little over a week ago, after they had stated that they were “completely fed up” about the deplorable and “impassable” state of their main access road.