Flooding: Why Tinubu should declare state of emergency on gully erosion in South-East – Omeire

The senatorial campaigner of Imo West of the Action Peoples Party successful the coming 2027 election, Rufus Omeire, has explained wherefore President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should state a authorities of exigency connected gully erosion successful the South-East region. 

He made this known successful a connection on Friday. 

Omeire raised an alarm that the erosion has destroyed communities, roads, homes, farmlands, and nationalist infrastructure successful the southeast region. 

According to him, erosion posed a superior menace to lives, livelihoods, and sustainable improvement successful the Southeast region, demanding urgent national authorities intervention. 

“I impulse President Tinubu to state a authorities of exigency connected gully erosion successful the South-East, peculiarly successful the Orlu Senatorial Zone and Ideato Federal Constituency. The devastating erosion ravaging our communities continues to destruct roads, homes, farmlands, and nationalist infrastructure, posing a superior menace to lives, livelihoods, and sustainable development. Urgent national involution is indispensable to code this biology disaster,” Omeire, a erstwhile Nigerian lawmaker, stated. 

His request comes arsenic President Bola Ahmed Tinubu precocious approved the operation of the 150-kilometer Oba–Nnewi–Uga–Akokwa–Arondizuogu–Okigwe...