Abia communities cry out over devastating erosion menace, seek urgent Govt intervention

Meanwhile, residents of Amamba Uzuakoli Autonomous Community in Bende LGA have raised a fresh alarm over a devastating gully erosion that has destroyed homes, cut off access to farmlands and displaced families, lamenting what they described as years of government neglect despite huge sacrifices by the community.

Chibuikem Joseph, decried the worsening gully erosion ravaging the church premises, saying years of government’s “s without concrete action” have left the church and its primary school at risk.…We have tried, they are beyond our capacity to handle …Intervention is on the way -Abia GovernmentBy Steve Oko EROSION-threatened communities in Abia State have sent an urgent save our soul appeals to both the federal and state governments for help over an existential threat posed by dangerous gully erosion ravaging their ancestral homes.