From TCNEWS
Residents of Umuagu have raised the alarm that gully erosion has been threatening to destroy many houses in the area.
The affected area located at Emede-Umuagu Ibeku behind Chidiebere Transport Terminal, Umuahia North Local Government of Abia State has witnessed houses, flora, and fauna collapse under the devastating impact of erosion, raising concerns that if nothing is done to address the gully erosion ravaging the area, lives and property of residents might be at severe risk.
Interacting with our correspondent who visited the area, one of the residents, Mr. Mbanu Ibeawuchi Chukwunomso, lamented that many people’s houses have already been destroyed by the environmental disaster, while many others are on the verge of being swallowed by the widening gully erosion which has become a nightmare in the area
He pointed out that residents in their individual ways have carried out remedial works to at least stop the gullies from progressing but those measures had not been effective as the land keeps caving in, swallowing property, trees, and animals.
He disclosed that in the years past, the residents had written an SOS letter to the NEWMAP and Ministry of Environment, which has yielded no result, as they visited to see the affected place with a promise to revisit and save the situation which they never did.
Mr. Mbanu who lamented that the erosion menace at the moment is above what the residents can handle and it needed help from the state and national governments to be able to address it, passionately called on the Government of Governor Alex Otti to come to the aid of the residents to see how the erosion menace could be addressed.
