Anambra Community Raises Alarm Over Sweeping Flood Threat

The Federal Government (FG) has been beckoned upon through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Anambra State government led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to urgently assist flood victims in Awba-Ofemili town, among others.

Awba-Ofemili is a community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State and was heavily ravaged by the recent flood, sacking some villages inpcluding in Umuosite and some parts of Ege, Nkpuocha, Oka-akwu, Ngene Nkpumekwu communities to name a few.

Reacting to the flood and its impact, the National Coordinator, Awba-Ofemili League of Professionals (ALeP), Chinenyeze Remmy Nweke, said in Lagos, that the flood is avoidable only if the state actors took their assignment seriousl

He lamented that the flood in Awba-Ofemili led to the death of at least, a young man known as Ike Igwee about last week, among other damages to the agrarian town and environs.

Nweke, therefore called on the relevant state apparatus, including NEMA, State Emergency Management Agency in Anambra to come to the aid of Awba-Ofemili as one of the communities largely affected by the flood.

According to him, government actors need to be proactive when warnings on such situations like flood are given rather than wait to be reactive.

“As we speak there is no part of the town with eight villages the flood did not affect,” he lamented.

This will also affect the agricultural produce from the town as crops have been washed away, some building collapse, thereby forcing some people to relocate to some high level areas for safety.

Meanwhile, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that some 10,345 victims are from Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, while Ayamelum had 9,240 flood cases with 5,468 displaced persons.