Imo rep urges FG to address erosion crisis in Ideato North/South constituency

The subordinate representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency successful Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has called connected the Federal Government to urgently code a worsening gully erosion situation affecting respective communities successful his constituency.

He described the concern arsenic 1 that has severely impacted infrastructure, farmlands, and livelihoods, and has besides led to the nonaccomplishment of lives.

Ugochinyere made the entreaty connected Friday during a unrecorded property league successful his hometown, wherever helium acknowledged ongoing efforts to tackle erosion successful the country but stressed that immoderate locations present necessitate contiguous intervention.

“Let maine convey the national authorities for coming to our rescue, erstwhile we raised alarm connected the erosion successful assorted towns successful Ideato. The President and the Federal Executive Council unanimously approved N25 cardinal for erosion power and enactment started, earlier the authorities authorities wrote that they privation to instrumentality implicit and implicit it,” helium said.

He besides commended the Imo State Government for continuing the project. “I besides privation to convey the authorities authorities for keeping to their committedness to implicit the project. We’ve seen enactment that’s ongoing and we anticipation it volition beryllium completed successful owed time,” helium added.

Despite these efforts, Ugochinyere noted that different erosion sites person worsened.

“But there’s different devastating erosion occupation that’s astir to chopped Ideato retired from civilisation. We person the Umuechi, Urualla gully erosion that has gone retired of control. It’s astir to transportation some St. Jude Catholic Church and the king’s palace and different national infrastructure there,” helium said.

He further stated that the erosion has extended to farmlands successful Obodoukwu owed to the abandonment of a World Bank-assisted project.

“It’s truthful devastating that farmlands person been chopped up to Obodoukwu due to the fact that of the abandonment of the World Bank project. The World Bank invested up to N9 cardinal but due to the fact that of the greed of the authorities authorities then, they pulled distant and our radical are dying,” helium said.

Appealing straight to national authorities, Ugochinyere said, “So fto maine entreaty to the national government, the Minister of Works and Environment, delight find a mode to intervene and prevention our people. Put an extremity to erosion menace.”