Vincent Ujumadu
2 December 2008
HOPE rose yesterday for solving the problem of gully erosion devastating most parts of Anambra State as the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology made a firm promise to influence Federal Government's quick intervention in the matter which, it observed calls for a state of emergency.
Members of the Senate committee, led by its chairman, Senator Grace Bent, who were in Anambra State on the invitation of the state government, were perplexed with the situation at the various sites they visited.
Specifically, they came face to face with a community in Nanka in Orumba North local government area which had been severed from the rest of the state and the Nkpor erosion site near Onitsha which swallowed the multi-million naira greater Onitsha water scheme which led to the present acute water shortage in the commercial town.
Indeed, Governor Peter Obi had to shelve the state's weekly executive council meeting to brief the senators and later accompanied them to the various sites, said from the cost done by experts, it would require N22 billion to solve the over 1000 erosion sites in the state.
In an emotion-laden voice, Obi noted that having seen the pains and the agony the people were going through, the Senate would definitely do something to save the situation.
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