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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