Perennial erosion has completely wrecked Umunwanwa community, Umahia South, destroying roads, homes, and farmlands and jeopardizing the village’s food security.
Residents are dissatisfied with what remains after erosion has ravaged their community.
Their icy demeanor originates from what they muttered: being videotaped for years about the road with no tangible results.
Nenna Gabriel of TVC News reports that erosion has plagued the community for decades, and many say it is synonymous with calamity.
The gully is getting closer to residential apartments and eating away at all corners of their roads.
It might be argued that development lacks a community presence.
A massive erosion site looks like an age-long destruction. The view only leaves one wondering what will happen to the village if the gully keeps gaping.
Before this disaster, residents used this road to their farms as well as access the neighbouring Obizi in Imo State.
Imo state is presently accessible exclusively through Umunwanwa Community Primary School.
Though the school buildings are dilapidated, enabling erosion to seep in, the community does not want them to be demolished.
Even residences close to the site are on the verge of collapse, which is concerning.
The fear of even coming close to the yawning hole grips anyone who tries to peep as it is really massive.
Residents urge the government to come to their aid.
They say to link the neighboring Ubakala village is a problem due to the bad state of the road.
As the rainy season sets in, the residents are apprehensive as erosion may wash the remaining part of the land they use.
More frightening is the vibration from heavy-duty vehicles on this particular point, which may cave in easily.
Lack of access road also made the former Imo River Basin Development Authority, a company that once employed fishermen to fish for commercial purposes leave the community.
And as an agrarian community, farmers now took over what used to be the company’s portion to farm on the lands.
