Residents count losses as river ravages C’River community
The National Emergency Management Agency and the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency have dispatched teams to the site for an on-the-spot damage assessment, an acknowledgment, at the federal and state levels, that this is no longer a local inconvenience but a full-blown disaster zone.
A Community’s Plea What Obutong wants, ultimately, is an emergency access road around the collapsed federal corridor, urgent engineering intervention from Abuja and Calabar alike, and space to grieve and atone in the ways their tradition demands.“The community may attribute it to one goddess or another,” he said, “but the underlying truth is a maintenance failure compounded by a punishing rainy season.”
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