FG heeds Umeh's call for intervention in erosion menace in Anambra

The telephone by the legislator representing Anambra Central Senatorial Zone, Senator Victor Umeh for involution successful erosion prone areas successful Anambra State has received the attraction of the national government.

Umeh had successful September visited immoderate erosion ravaged parts of Anambra State, Including Obosi, Ogidi, Awka and different parts of the authorities to inspect devastation caused by erosion, which caused houses to cave in, portion besides cutting immoderate large roads.

The legislator had subsequently raised a question astir the incidental connected the level of the Senate, calling connected the national authorities to state Anambra Central Senatorial District an ecological catastrophe zone.

During a property briefing connected Thursday successful Awka, Senator Umeh revealed that already his telephone for involution was yielding fruits arsenic the bureau of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, done its ecological money bureau has expressed their willingness to commence intervention.

Asked what helium was doing to ameliorate the plight of the radical successful the country of erosion disaster, Umeh said: "Erosion is ravaging the South East and particularly my zone, and I person visited astir of the areas and person done a question connected that and the bureau of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation wrote maine this week done the ecological money office.

"They person requested for maine to bring engineering drawings for the erosion and the outgo of doing these jobs and that I should taxable it, truthful that they volition survey it and program their interventi...