Post Edited: Lamentation as Edo communities battle worsening gully erosions
It was a cloudy morning in Benin City. It had rained heavily the night before. There were puddles in the several potholes that riddle the road leading to the students’ hostels.Ms John was referring to a gully behind a block of flats in the University of Benin, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
“Unfortunately, this is one of the many projects you will find that have never been done in the state. Most communities are suffering as a result of erosion,” she said.Disturbed by the number of abandoned NDDC erosion-control projects in the state, the Edo government decided to complete some of the projects.
A report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative on revenues, deductions, disbursement and application of funds by NDDC, indicates that the commission awarded contracts on jetty/erosion reclamation in the Niger Delta region to the value of N61 billion between 2007 and 2011.” “I have been living here since 1982. We are suffering in this area. Look at my house now, no tenants. All the tenants moved out because it’s difficult for them to drive their cars through here.
“Vehicles can no longer drive on this road to carry produce from the farm. A wheelbarrow cannot pass too, the only option is to put it on your head. Even while walking, you still fall due to the deep damage done by erosion. Our produce gets bad sometimes because there is no way to pack them out,” he said.As a ‘full time’ farmer, he said his family found it difficult to eat on a daily basis.
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