Abia Community Spends N400m On Erosion Projects

Members of Ebem Ohafia Development Union person spent implicit N400 cardinal connected erosion sites successful the community, saying the menace had gone beyond its fiscal capacity.

The national stated this astatine a gathering betwixt the assemblage and the Abia State House of Assembly Committee connected Environment, Urban Renewal and New Map successful Ohafia, Ohafia section authorities area.
Addressing the committee, the 2nd adjunct wide secretary, Kalu Ogboso Nnoke, appealed for urgent involution to apprehension the concern earlier it degenerates further.

Similarly, the accepted ruler of the community, Eze Ukoha Kalu Ukoha, lamented that the menace had near galore radical stateless and devastated farmlands.

Represented by the premier minister, Kalu Okorie, the monarch stressed the request for a speedy effect and thanked the committee “for inspecting the sites firsthand.”

He urged Governor Alex Otti, the national authorities and involution agencies to rescue the country earlier it is washed distant by the flood.

In a response, the committee chairman, Kalu Mba Nwoke, expressed interest implicit the biology challenge, describing “the sites arsenic not lone extended but deathtraps arsenic well.”

“We’ve seen and noted your plight and volition study the aforesaid to the House successful item for indispensable action,” the lawmaker representing Ohafia South constituency. said

In a invited address, the council’s mayor, Eleanya Ojuu Kalu, lamented the erosion menace but expressed the anticipation that the sojourn would supply a lasting solution.

The erosion sites are astatine Ekeluogo, Ndi Ukpolo, Ndi Inyima, Ndi Nsi Eziukwu/Ndi Idika Awa and on Nkpogolo Road starring to Federal Government College, Ohafia, and on Onyirimba Road and Bakassi Avenue and Amekpu Ohafia community.