Egboama-Odual Communities Appeal For Aid

Following the recent flooding and sacking of their entire community, the people of Egboama in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State have called on the Rivers State government to come to their aid.

Speaking recently in Ahoada, the Paramount ruler of the community, Chief Geoffrey Ikogha said that his community comprising Kala and Opu Ogbogolo was now totally submerged with all the inhabitants rendered homeless.

He said their case was pathetic and peculiar considering the fact that they inhabit the bank of the Orashi river.

Chief Ikogha said as a result, the community had lost farms and valuable property worth millions of naira.

According to him, the situation has now forced them to move to neighouring Emesu in the Emughan axis of Abua with others joining their counterparts in Ahoada through their personal efforts.

While appreciating the efforts of the Rivers State government in handling the flood situation, he called on the relevant government authorities to extend such palliative measures to the people of his community as well.

In a related development, the paramount ruler of Odual, Chief Temple Jamala in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State has called on the state government to send a medical team to address the needs of his people who are camped at Abua following the flooding in the area.

Jamala who was speaking to newsmen in Abua recently at one of the camps for displaced people, said the camps were inadequate to cater for the influx of victims from his area.

According to him, the Chairman of ABOLGA, Mr. Udi Odum has done his best in the provision of amenities to the people even as he called for the improvement of the sanitary conditions of the camps.

“For now, I think the local government chairman is really trying his best, we are all camped at Abua but knowing fully well how it is to cope with the situation, we are appealing to the Rivers State government to send their medical team”, he said.