Outcry as erosion sacks Abia community

One of the areas affected by erosion
THE people of Ndi Uduma Awoke autonomous community in
Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, have asked the
federal and Abia State governments to tackle the erosion
menace threatening their community.
The erosion, it was gathered, had swept away at least 10 houses
in the community, making residents of the community to live in
fear.
The President General of the community development union, Mr.
Eme Uche, who conducted journalists round the erosion site,
said residents had been subjected to hardship caused by the
erosion.
He regretted that efforts by the people to draw the attention of
governments to their plight had not got the expected response.
“We have reported this menace in writing to the ecological fund
office at the Presidency in Abuja and to the Abia State
Government for years. Yet there has not been any action,” he
lamented.
Uche said unless quick action was taken to save the situation,
the entire community stood the risk of being swept away,
especially with the increase in rainfall.
He said that the menace had damaged a primary school and
farm farmlands.
“Already, the school has been cut off and children find it difficult
to go to school. Some areas in the community have been cut off
from the rest of the people such that they go to farm with great
difficulty.
“For now 10 families in the community have been sacked by the
erosion and if nothing is done urgently, the entire community
would be swept away. We pay taxes to government and should
be treated like patriotic citizens; the neglect is beyond
imagination.”
He appealed to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to extend his
infrastructural transformation to the community and save them
from extinction.
It was also discovered that the erosion menace in the
community posed a serious threat to the Arochukwu-Ohafia
federal highway which passed through the community.
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