Anambra Erosion Menace: Traders, Road Users Urge FERMA Back To Site
By Julie Sylvia
Palpable fear has allegedly gripped traders and road users in Ogbaru Relief (Main) market and its environs, Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State, following the destruction of completed gulley erosion along Upper Iweka/Owerri road bye-pass, by the flood caused by the recent downpour.
Recall that Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, a few months ago, based on a petition to it, written by the chairman of Ogbaru market, Chief Ndubisi Ochiogu, worked on the gulley erosion after it collapsed about 10 shops in Ogbaru market, exhumed underground cables, water burn pipes, electric poles, among others.
Reacting to the latest development, Chief Ochiogu, said, “Not long after the completion of the work, the flood of the first rain uprooted the slabs and caused some cracks that have worsened the situation. If nothing is done to rectify the situation now that it has not come to the former stage, all money and efforts spent will be wasted.
“I wrote to FERMA and they came and worked on the erosion, and I thanked them for their intervention and want to remind them that their good work is currently being threatened by flood.
