Umeh begs Nigerian govt to declare Anambra Central ecological disaster zone as erosion swallows houses

The legislator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh, has called connected the national authorities to state his senatorial portion an ecological catastrophe zone, pursuing the menace of erosion and flooding successful the zone.

Parts of Awka, the superior metropolis of Anambra State, person precocious experienced terrible flooding and erosion devastation arsenic a effect of torrential rainfall. These person led to the decease by drowning of a six-year-old schoolboy and the caving successful of astir 3 houses into an erosion gully, displacing their occupants.

The legislator made the telephone at the weekend when helium visited the household of the drowned schoolboy and the country of erosion devastation wherever houses caved into gullies.

Umeh said: “I consciousness bittersweet that Anambra Central Senatorial District is nether superior erosion menace and flooding. I was successful Obosi and Ogidi successful Idemili country conscionable weeks backmost to spot the devastation of flood and erosion. This time, it is Awka, the superior of Anambra State. It is bittersweet that each the section governments successful my senatorial territory are experiencing flood and erosion devastation.

“All the buildings astir present are nether threat, these ones close down maine person already collapsed and portion of the different 1 has besides collapsed. This gully is simply a agelong long and I don’t cognize however we tin beryllium saved if not for the interventio...