LANDSLIDE HITS ANOTHER EBONYI COMMUNITY

REPORTER: SIMON IDUMA

Another landslide has occurred in Ugwu Iyimmanu on Ekata- Letu Road in Umunna Autonomous Community, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

A resident of the area, Mr. Iheanachor Okam, told Radio Nigeria in a telephone interview that the hill fell and closed the road, thereby making it impossible for people to pass through the road to their destinations.

He explained that there were no buildings in the affected area as it is made up of a hill and a valley, but people from the community including, Ugwu Ufie, Ekata, Ama Mmini, Ndi Olughu and Letu were finding it difficult to pass through the road.

According to Mr. Okam, the people in the community cannot even go to their general market in Owutu Edda because of the landslide that has closed the road.

While recalling that a landslide occurred in Ogwuma Edda recently, Mr. Okam appealed to the government to take urgent steps and find lasting solution to the problem of landslide in the council.

“We are appealing to the government to find solution to all these things because the other one occurred at Ogwuma Edda, government is trying by doing their best.

“Now another one has occurred in another village. We are still appealing to them to do more by finding solution so that this landslide in Edda will end,” he begged.

Recently, a landslide occured in Ogwuma Community in the same Afikpo South Local Government Area and blocked a major road connecting Ebonyi with Abia State.

In a bid to build retaining wall and carried out remedial works on the affected part as well as to avert loss of life in the nature threatened area, the state Governor, Chief David Umahi, ordered that 65 households whose houses were under threat, be evacuated from their homes.

The Government promised to resettle them in a new estate to be built for them in a neighbouring community.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU