The Senate has urged the Federal Government to deploy pressing emergency interventions throughout flood- and erosion-ravaged communities in Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, and neighboring states.
The crimson chamber’s motion adopted joint motions sponsored by Senator Victor Umeh (NDC, Anambra Central), Senator Anthony Ani (APC, Ebonyi South), and Senator Osita Izunaso (APC, Imo West), detailing the continuing ecological catastrophe gripping their respective constituencies.
Leading the talk, Senator Victor Umeh highlighted the humanitarian and environmental crises unfolding in Ogidi, Obosi, and Oko.
He revealed that heavy torrents had brought about catastrophic flooding and increasing gully erosion, ensuing in at the least 4 casualties—together with a pregnant girl and a six-year-old youngster—alongside the mass displacement of households.
Umeh warned that quickly increasing gullies are threatening main transport arteries, together with very important sections of the strategic Onitsha-Owerri Expressway, threatening to paralyze interstate commerce and each day livelihoods.
Supporting the movement, Senator Anthony Ani emphasised the devastating financial toll on Ebonyi South, the place overflowing waters have swallowed farmland, destroyed livestock, and worn out household valuables, additional worsening native financial hardship. Ani known as on the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to urgently assess crop harm and ship quick aid to affected farmers.
Senator Osita Izunaso highlighted that flooding and extreme gully erosion proceed to threaten quite a few communities and roadways throughout Imo West—a persistent catastrophe he beforehand dropped at the Senate ground in 2023.
He pressured that with out coordinated drainage works and street rehabilitation, motorists and pedestrians stay in fixed hazard.
Following intensive contributions, the Senate adopted all prayers directed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to instantly ship meals, medical provides, and aid supplies to displaced residents.
The Senate additionally directed the Federal Ministries of Works and Environment to conduct fast assessments, restore blocked entry routes, and deploy long-term ecological management measures.
The Upper Chamber mandated the Senate committees on Environment, Works, Ecology, and Climate Change to conduct joint area inspections of the broken areas and submit a complete report inside 30 days.
Our correspondent stories that the lawmakers stood to look at a minute of silence in reminiscence of victims who misplaced their lives to the pure disasters.
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