No fewer than 10 homes have been submerged in erosion in Ndi Uduma Awoke, Abia State pressing the residents to renew their call to the government at all levels to come to their rescue.
President General of Ndi Uduma Awoke Development Union, Eme Uche, lamented that all efforts to draw the attention of the government to their plight have met with no response, stoking fears that the whole community would soon be flattened.
“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.
“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.
“For now 10 families in the community have been sacked by the erosion and if nothing is done urgently the entire community will be swept away,” Uche warned.
He said erosion has affected education, agriculture, social life, and also cut off the community from the Arochukwu/Ohafia federal road.
“Ohafia people are noted for their self help effort but this erosion problem is beyond self help and that is why we are crying to the state and federal governments to come to our aid.
“We pay taxes to the government and should be treated like patriotic citizens; the neglect is beyond imagination.”
Uche urged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to extend his infrastructural transformation to Ndi Uduma.
The traditional ruler, Kalu Nchonwa, recounted that the government has been making empty promises since the problem started in 1999.
He pleaded with the present administration to urgently come to their rescue to forestall further damage to property which will make life worse for people.
