Residents decry govt neglect as flood submerges Ayakoromo community

By Timi Black

Residents of Ayakoromo community have cried out to the Delta state governor, senator Ifeanyi Okowa and leaders in Burutu Local Government Area of the tate to provide palliatives and evacuate them to upland following the ravaging flood submerging the community.

This was made available to Congress correspondent in a statement by the community’s chairman, Comrade Richard Ebibofa Momoh in Warri Delta state on Monday.

According to the chairman, academic activities had been paralysed in all schools in the community as classrooms had been submerged by the increasing flood.

He also lamented that the residents means of livelihood had been affected as farm lands had equally submerged.

Momoh said, “Residential buildings have been submerged by the flood and house owners and the entire community have been made to make compulsory relocation.

“Acute hunger and starvation are the order of the day.

“There is likelihood of spread of disease and other concomitant effects beyond the pages of newspaper.

“We call upon all political appointees at the local, state and federal government levels and other interventionist bodies like DESOPADEC and NDDC to come to our aid.

“International Non-governmental Organizations, Non-governmental Organizations and well meaning philanthropists are called upon to assist us as we have become refugees in our own community.

“As the water level increases on daily basis, we beseech the government through her agencies (SEMA and NEMA) to evacuate us to higher grounds, he lamented.

“All these are just but temporary solutions toward ameliorating the challenges faced by the people, so we call upon the government to offer permanent solution by sand filling the entire community,”he noted.