Akanti50:
THIS ONE DON KPAFUKA. NWA OTU HOW ARE YOU GONNA MAKE MONEY. I HOPE YOUR MOM IS STILL ALIVE, OR HAVE YOUR BROTHERS BOOKED HER HEAD BEFORE HAND..

Chri08102702694:
IMO IS CURSED

Akanti50:

CHAI THAT MEANS HE GO SUFFER OO.

PauloNSK:


BEATING AKARIA

Chri08102702694:
IMO IS CURSED

Akanti50:
ARAMBARA AGAIN? CURSED TO THE ROOT

For the Ogwu-Ikpele people in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, living by the bank of River Niger portends no evil, rather, it affords the people a means of livelihood, supported by aquatic splendour and resources. To them, there is no other way of life aside the one surrounded by the mass of water.



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These people have been living on farming and fishing along the bank of the River Niger for ages until recently, when the serenity of the coastal community was broken by the surging river that submerged half of the community, leaving behind in its trail tears, pains and irreparable losses.


When the administration of late president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, announced the dredging of the lower Niger, the decision was greeted with enthusiasm, given the inherent benefit of the project, but like everything about life, the ugly side of the project, which is the resultant rise in the river current has left a once bubbling Ogwu-Ikpele community in ruins.


At the last count, about 600 including schools and health centres, have been submerged with over 1,000 hectares of farmland with cash crops washed away.


Although, the ocean surge began about a decade ago, the residents, through self help, were able to curtail it by putting up palliative measures, but obviously, the measures could not stand the increased current as a result of the dredging project and the river over-flowed its bank.


Conducting newsmen round the community which shares a common boundary with Ndoni, Rivers State, one of the residents, Mr Alphonsus Emordi, said that, "over 600 buildings have been carried away by the surging river, adding that the situation which started about 10 years ago had become worse since the commencement of the dredging of the lower Niger."


Emordi disclosed that the community, through various mediums had complained to the relevant authorities to tackle the issue by constructing a concrete embankment along the river bank as was done in neighbouring Rivers State. He lamented that even schools and the only health centre in the community had all been washed away.


Emordi who also said that it might appear foolhardy to continue to remain in the community given the level of the threat, insisted that the people couldnot just wake up and move out of their ancestral homes and abandon their life investments.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/features/28870-ogwu-ikpelethe-story-of-a-town-submerged-by-river-niger

Akanti50:


IS ARAMBARAS THIS CURSED..

Chri08102702694:

Chri08102702694:
IMO STATE

Chri08102702694:
IMO STATE