Owerri — The traditional ruler of Nekede autonomous community, Eze Jonas Agumanu, has passionately appealed to the federal and state government to help tackle the devastating gully erosion currently ravaging the area.

Eze Agumanu, who made the passionate appeal in an exclusive interview with Vanguard during a function at Obinze, lamented that farmlands, cash crops, roads and ancestral homes have been washed away.

"Parts of my community is currently under serious threat of annihilation by a devastating gully erosion.

Farmlands, cash crops, roads and family homes have been washed away", the royal father lamented.He further disclosed that if nothing serious and urgent was done to arrest the advancing erosion, "more family homes would ultimately bow to the superior force of the erosion in no distant date".