Gully
erosion has sacked residents of Odongbu-Amogbeke and Akponge-Amoju in
Ezimo, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, while seven other
communities are being threatened by the menace.
Deputy Chairman of
the council, Mr Natty Eze, while conducting members of the Enugu State
Assembly Committee on Environment round the devastation site, said the
victims were now scattered in neighbouring villages.
Eze said the affected communities currently lacked lands for agriculture which was their main occupation.
He
listed other areas affected by the gully erosion to include
Mkporogwu-Ezimo-Ulo road and Ugwu Odor-Uruneya erosion site in Udunedem
ward.
Others
are the two erosion sites at Obollo-Afor, four at Amalla community,
Ama-Orba and Iyi-Opu Ozalla, which he said were beyond the financial
capacity of the local government.
Eze said the council had
controlled the erosion site at Umuezejo-Obollo-Afor and therefore
appealed to the state and Federal Governments to come to their aid to
curb the erosion.
He commended the assembly committee on
environment for their foresight in collating data on ecological
disasters threatening the state.
In his response, Chairman of the
committee, Mr Donatus Uzogbado, called on communities in the area to
imbibe and revive the culture of road maintenance by checking erosion at
its onset.
Uzogbado, while assuring them of the government’s
commitment to contolling erosion in the area however said waiting for
the government to do all things, even when people in the community were
facing environmental threats, was not the best.
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