EzeUche:

For erosion which occurs throughout Igboland? A process that started doing the Palm oil trade?

ronkebp:

thank God, no life was lost,

hackney:

All that gully in Anambra state is mother nature trying to dig up all those money ritual bodies there.
I have never seen a people that like money more than anambra indigienes.


they can contribute and i will design the grid drainage for them at various surge points.
water can be piped for long distances like oil if rqd (into the ocean or so)
money-crazy state.

2mch:

;DThe Biafran shilling stops with Obi . This is why when you point one finger, four others are pointing at you. Who will laugh last now?

seanet02:

Kobojunkie, ezeuche, jamaine Jmaine, ystranger, chz, igboman,chino and all those hypocrites on Lagos thread where are you all? Barbaric Hypocrites!

You don sniff your evening dose snuff abi   . . . My comments on this thread are visible and . . . so far  . . . we are having a responsible debate with no one trying to shout down others just because their Object of worship are being addressed and criticized correctly . . . replace this thread with a name of your idols and observe the torrents of abuse you and your ilks would be dishing out consistently just to defend the indefensible . . . .So much for your false supremacist theories and believe . . .Learn civility for your own good and stop shaming our ethnic group[b] consistently[/b]  . . .

lagcity:

u see why no one wants to invest in yiboland? it is a sh1thole. even Igbos won't invest there. that's why they were begging for southern unity. Igbos are penny wise and dollar foolish. they would rather kidnap and bury their monarch at okija or buy the ozo title rather than fix their sh1thole. una see how the world's greatest whiners don carry begging bowl to Papa Jona . pathetic. next month, i'm going to be in Alpha beach in lasgidi, guess who's not gonna worry about huge gullies swallowing him up?

jmaine:

You don sniff your evening dose snuff abi   . . . My comments on this thread are visible and . . . so far  . . . we are having a responsible debate with no one trying to shout down others just because their Object of worship are being addressed and criticized correctly . . . replace this thread with a name of your idols and observe the torrents of abuse you and your ilks would be dishing out consistently just to defend the indefensible . . . .So much for your false supremacist theories and believe . . .Learn civility for your own good and stop shaming our ethnic group[b] consistently[/b]  . . .

KenGali:

Just to humour those that are looking for Solutions.
I come from a Village in Anambra that is on top of a hill or rather an expansive highland. And do we have erosion?

It is a fact that these kind of Erosion Menace was almost non existent in the 80s and early 90s. So why are they here now?
Secondly, if you look at most pictures of erosion sites in Anambra, they are areas bereft of trees, un-natural grassland;A strange thing for our vegetation type.

The truth is that over the past two decades we have seen development to mean the cutting down of tree and virgin forests for buildings. Many of our huge Iroko's have been either cut down for roads or some Pentecostal church mission claim that they host witches and Wizards? Dumb.

The solution I believe is to build with an Elvish Philosophy, or what i call the Elvenland. Living Among Trees.
1. We need to Recognize and Preserve Virgin Forest (Referred to as Ajo Offia, most communities still have theirs) by maping them and granting them special status.
2. We need to encourage the cultivation of trees: BY:-

a. Review our building Codes; avoid the kind of Crowding of buildings in Lagos; Adopt more spacious building requirements and Require a number of Large, medium and shrub like trees as part of legalized building requirement.

b. Introduce a certification system for the felling of trees outside reserved timber plantations; to ensure that for every tree failed due to obstruction five more are planted by the feller.

d. We need to find and recognize tree that are more than 30 years old, and retain them as Government properties under the custody of the land occupant. Trees up to 75 or 100 years old should fetch the land occupant or custodian such financial benefits as children scholarship, tax rebates, free health insurance etc.

c. Legalize the use of tree for property fencing, and extend legal status to such, recognizing the fencing of Properties by planting trees around the boundaries as property development.

d. We can make conscious efforts to line our roadways with local beautifying trees and reforest our waste lands esp. those found in Agulu and Nnanka.

In all this we do not really need federal funding except in the cases of reforestation were we need to import top soil or humus into the area. The rest have to do with peoples attitudes and government policy, guidance and commitment to the policies. No amount of concrete drainage will prevent a land slide in an area where the structural soils clay, and water is freely available to be soaked up by the soil. Only trees can hold the soil together, retain most of the water in the forest floor, and encourage runoff where there is no forest floor.

ak47mann:

go suck your mother

KenGali:

@Alj_Harem, I assume you meant Natives.
My answer is yes. Like Ezeuche said, we are Forest People. And Traditionally have cultural abohrrence that protect forests before the white man came. it might interest you to know that uptil now, a particular undying tree is still used as land beacon in rural areas instead of the government registered beacons. If government recognize such, it will encourage tree planting. Applying it in Urban areas is a queston of government implementation only.

KenGali:


I come from a Village in Anambra that is on top of a hill or rather an expansive highland. And do we have erosion?

It is a fact that these kind of Erosion Menace was almost non existent in the 80s and early 90s. So why are they here now?
Secondly, if you look at most pictures of erosion sites in Anambra, they are areas bereft of trees, un-natural grassland;A strange thing for our vegetation type.

jmaine (m)

Overwhelming gully pathway Shocked Shocked Shocked . . . Part of this problem is due to the irresponsible activities of construction companies who excavate earth for their routine projects . . .All they did was just harvest, harvest and harvest with no precaution given to the environmental impacts of their unsustainable exploitation . . . And they still visit there often to collect more earth for their own selfish need without regards to the souls living along those affected zones . . .

The issue is not lack of regulatory laws or framework to monitor their activities, but it is the average non-chalance of people to environmental issues,especially not when directly affected .The government at all level in the federation need to make stern adherence to laws, especially environmental laws in this context