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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