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Hon. Chidi Mark Obetta Decries The Menace Caused By Flooding In Alor-Uno, Enugu State

NancyOkafor

Jul 06, 2023

Hon. Chidi Mark Obetta Decries The Menace Caused By Flooding In Alor-Uno, Enugu State
The Honorable member representing Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency, Chidi Mark Obetta, has decries the menace and resultant gully erosion in Alor-Uno Community of Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency.

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This he raised in his motion titled: Need to Intervene in the Flooding Menace and Resultant Gully Erosion in Alor-Uno

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Community of Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency.

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Hon. Chidi lamented that the re-occurring menace of flood in Nigeria with attendant devastating impacts on human livelihoods and infrastructural development needs to be attended to urgently.

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While leading the debate, The Law Maker said "the people of the Community in Nsukka Local Government Area are presently

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battling both the menace of flooding and the resultant effect of gully erosion and this ugly

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development poses a great threat and challenge to the continued habitation of their ancestral home.

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"the major contributory factors to the flooding menace and gully erosion in the Community is the haphazard and uncompleted drainage constructed by the Enugu State government

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which collects rainwater from the urban uphill residential areas of Onu-lyi Nsukka and deposits same

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in Alor-Uno Community where no drainage systems were put in place to direct the path of the water and it consequently ends up in people's homes and farmlands.

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"the need to act urgently on this matter to save the people of Alo-Uno Community from

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further internal displacement and environmental degradation, he said

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In adopting the motion, the House mandated the Committees on Environment, Works, Emergency and Disaster Preparedness (When Constituted) to take a tour of the affected areas to ascertain the level of damages done, liaise

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with relevant MDAS with a view to proferring informed and lasting solutions to the situation.

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