Monarch Seeks FG’s Support On Erosion Control

A royal father in Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka III of Obosi, has called on the Federal Government to assist the community to put erosion, threatening to divide the community in five parts, in check.

“Many families in Obosi land have been made homeless owing to the erosion”, he told newsmen.

The traditional ruler added that gullies and canyons created by perennial erosion in the community were deep enough to consume a seven-floor story and as wide as two football fields in some instances.

“I would have loved you to go round some villages and take shots of erosion sites. Erosion has split this town into five places.

“We are not totally split, but it’s almost. We have deep gullies as deep as seven-storey building and as wide as two football fields.

“And this is a serious matter; so I want to seize this opportunity to appeal to the Federal Government to help us to address and attend to the erosion.’’

According to Igwe Iweka, to contain the situation is beyond the community and needs the attention of the Federal Government.

He expressed the hope that with the aid of the Federal Government, the situation would be controlled and the community would no longer face the threat of gullies and canyons.

Igwe Iweka also said that the community particularly needed the assistance of the Federal Government because the containment of the erosion would be capital-intensive.

In another development, the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has directed its members to apprehend and handover criminal elements to the Nigeria police.

Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the government, made the announcement while speaking with newsmen at Oba, near Onitsha in Anambra.

Uwazuruike said that the directive became necessary after a detailed assessment of security situation in the South-East geo-political zone.

He said that MASSOB and the Igbo leadership had vowed to rid the entire South-East of kidnappers, armed robbers and other violent criminals.

Uwazuruike said the massive arrest of some criminal elements should be applicable to all areas of the South-East, adding that Igbo land would no longer tolerate the negative activities of criminals.

He regretted that apart from scaring Ndi-Igbo from coming back to their home town, the criminals were scaring the investors from coming to invest in zone.