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Reps urge NEMA to send relief materials to Abia erosion victims
The House of Representatives has urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide relief materials to victims of erosion disaster in Ogbo community in Abia State.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Emeka Nnamani (LP-Abia) during plenary in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said torrential rainfall damaged economic crops and washed away farmlands in the community located in Aba North and South Federal constituency in Abia State.
He added that the community had suffered devastating gully erosion, adding that this brought with it untold hardship and posed an imminent threat to lives and property for residents.
He raised concerned that Ogbo community, in Aba North Local Government Area, had over the years grappled with erosion menace without receiving any support from either the State or the Federal Government.
He said the people of Ogbo community had resorted to self-help to mitigate the ravaging effects of erosion in the community but their efforts have failed to yield desired results.
He said the houses of some residents of the community had been swallowed by the erosion, forcing them to take refuge on higher and safer grounds.
According to him, if the erosion in Ogbo community is not urgently addressed, it could degenerate into a national disaster as surrounding communities are also under threat of being swept away.
“The interventions by the Abia State Government to address the erosion have not yielded the desired result due to a lack of the needed expertise and funds to confront such a threat,” he said
Adopting the motion, the House urged the Ecological Fund Office to release adequate funds to solve the erosion challenge in Aba North Local Government Area of Abia State;
The House also mandated the committees on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness and Ecological Fund to ensure compliance.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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