The Abia State authorities has commenced the development of a flood management system in Umumukwu Nkata Ibeku neighborhood in Umuahia North LGA, to save lots of residents from additional harm.
The challenge, which is geared toward tackling perennial flooding within the space, would even be used to reclaim elements of the street across the web site, which had been destroyed by erosion.
The flood menace space, popularly often known as Hazard zone by some indigenes and different residents of the Nkata, had prior to now wet seasons, claimed some lives together with these of kids despatched on errands and in addition destroyed some buildings and financial timber.
Additionally, the drainage system beforehand constructed by means of communal efforts to checkmate the menace had, because of the water present, grow to be weak.
Some residents of Umumukwu Nkata together with Mr Steven Ibeabuchi and Mrs Josephine Chigere instructed Journalists that some residents and different non-residents of the world had died within the erosion web site however expressed reduction that the Abia State authorities got here to their help.
In a associated improvement, the state authorities has commenced the reconstruction of Dozie Approach and Umuafai-Lodu roads in Umuahia, which had been destroyed by flood.