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With the state of the bad roads networks in the rural areas, the Imo state government has embarked on a program known as the Imo Rural Maintenance Agency ( IRROMA) to address the needed development of the rural communities thereby providing a more reliable road access to various rural communities.

The Aim:
is to open up the neglected rural areas and link all parts of the state as a part of the plan to make Imo State a one-city state and boost socio-economic activities of the state. IRROMA hopes to recreate the glorious days of the Public Works Department (PWD) of old. It aims at creating an active Works Department in each of the 27 local government areas of Imo State. Apart from ensuring constant maintenance and rehabilitation of the rural roads and infrastructures, IRROMA will create jobs for over 3,000 unemployed youths in the interim period and expand its structure and workforce with time.
IRROMA employ 27 Civil Engineers to drive the initiative in each of the 27 local government areas, 27 Supervisors, 27 Drivers, 27 Equipment Maintenance Personnel and several skilled and semi-skilled workers to work in the Works Department in a move aimed at unleashing a rural revolution in Imo State. There are further plans to turn thousands of idle youths in the rural areas into casual workers that would drive IRROMA and turn them into the experienced staff that will continue driving this initiative thereafter.

Immediately after the flag-off of IRROMA, each of the twenty-seven local government areas in the state went home with the following equipments;
- A brand new caterpillar,
- A Brand new tipper loader,
- A brand new Toyota Hilux Van,
- A brand new Bus for Vigilante services,
- Several brand new motorcycles for IRROMA staff,
- Several new road maintenance equipments,
- Several cleaning equipments for local government Clean & Green Initiative, etc.

Also, several Toyota Hilux security patrol vans were released to the police and other security agencies all over the state, several brand new Chevrolet cars were released for the Imo Municipal taxi scheme and several trucks were released for the Clean and Green Initiative of the government.

IRROMA was given a mandate to deliver 300 rural roads in one month. The beautiful thing about the IRROMA initiative is that it is a sustainable program that will work all year round, to not only open newer roads and accesses but also regularly maintain these roads in all seasons. Again, it works with communities making presentations about roads they feel should be worked on and getting responses in record time. A bigger and better equipped state IRROMA stands by to work on bigger challenges and fix the urban roads. A maintenance workshop has been established in Naze, near Owerri to ensure the equipments are regularly maintained. There is a plan to continue expanding the equipment and staff of IRROMA to become mini-construction companies and there are plans to upgrade the status of roads IRROMA will do in the rural areas.
Further, there are plans to set up an asphalt plant, as parts of the larger IRROMA plan to ensure consistent supply of asphalt for Imo roads.

Looking at the outline, the initiative that has cost Imo State over N4billion is a product of good thinking and a desire to take governance to the very level where it matters most: the badly neglected grassroots. This is a laudable programme that should be embraced to every state government to address the issue of neglect, which the rural areas have suffered since the decay of governance in the country.