As Erosion Gully Pulls Houses,
Escalates To Primary School
By Izunna Okafor
The people of
Ebenator Ozulogu community in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra
State have appealed to the government of Anambra State under the leadership of
Chief Dr. Willie Obiano to run to their rescue as a cantankerous erosion gully
popularly known as 'Ibo Ebenator' vehemently threatening to wipe out the
community.
The call was harped
by the President General of the community, Chief Anthony Okechukwu in an
interview with our correspondent in his country home, Ebenator, while reacting
to the incessant rain fall that recently badgered nonstop for three days and
its chains of effect on the community.
He maintained that
the erosion gully, which is one of the deepest in entire southeastern region
has been a thing of worry and distress to the people of the community, and has
tormented the entire community for over twenty years, and still counting.
Among other threats
and dangers, Chief Okechukwu further disclosed that the gully, on yearly basis,
throws some members of the community into tears and regrets, as it advances and
escalates towards people's houses, collapsing many and forcing others to flee
their homes; destroys farm lands and crops, disjoints inter-community routes,
and more worrisomely, now advances towards the community's Primary School thereby
hanging as a death trap against the innocent pupils of the school who have
already resumed their academic activities for the term.
Highlighting some
of the palliative works so far undertaken by the community, and their
collective efforts to salvage the situation which all amounted to futility, the
helmsman who appreciated Gov. Obiano for his giant strides in championing rural
development across the state, also pleaded with him to as a matter of urgent,
run to their rescue to save the community and her people from the impending
doom, as many people no longer sleep in their houses for fear of having their
building collapsed on their heads at night, especially in this rainy season.
"Government
should please rush to our rescue as a matter of urgent, because this is a
matter of life and death" he added.
Joining his voice
to the call, the Traditional Ruler of the community, Igwe Edwin Chinewubeze
Ezejiburu said the erosion gully has caused a lot of damages to the people of
the community, to the extent that it now threatens to rend the community, by
cutting off many access roads that link each of the villages to another.
The Royal Father
who recently officiated the new yam festival celebration of the community
further eulogized the Obiano-led administration for the Community Choose Your
Project Initiative which he said the community has benefited a lot from; even
as he pleaded with him to treat the issue of the erosion gully as an emergency,
given the fact that human life is involved. Though no causality was said to
have been recorded in the recent time.
Contributing, a
concerned you in the community and CEO Austin Urunwa Computer Institute, Mr.
Chidiebere Ojiego who thanked Gov. Obiano for the massive youth empowerment
going on across the state also called on the state government and the
government of the federation to urgently do the needful, or and least deploy a
delegation from the offices of concerned concerned ministries and agencies to
visit the community and see things for themselves.
"If this erosion
gully continues to destroy our lands and houses like this, I wonder where we
the future generation will dwell or farm in the future. So government at the
state and federal levels should urgently come to our aid." Ojiego in his
word.
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