Some persons displaced by ravaging floodwaters in Anambra West, on Umueze Anam-Mmiata road need urgent government assistance as they need evacuation.

They currently lack potable water, food, shelter and toilet facilities.

The Umueze-mmiata road is currently flooded, causing the people to seek shelter on the bridge as some of them have since mounted tents on the road side.

They said that they defecate inside the river, which also served as their source of drinking and cooking water.

The people are also exposed to dangers of being attacked by dangerous reptiles like snakes, crocodiles, hippopotamus because they are surrounded by floodwaters.

The situation is the same at the Community Primary School, Umueze Anam, where a good number of displaced persons were currently accommodated.

Some people are also trapped in the floodwater with little or no means of moving out; also lack good drinking water, food and toilet facilities.

Innocent Okoye, one of the flood victims, who sought refuge at the Community Primary School, Umueze-Anam recounted his experiences.

“I lost virtually everything I possess to the floodwaters and my house in the village is submerged too; that is why I came here to seek refuge and shelter.”

When asked why he didn’t relocate his family to the Holding Centres, open to the people of the local council in Anambra East, Okoye said that he was not aware of any such arrangement.

He, then, appealed to government to come to their aid by sending evacuation team to their area.

“I am also using this medium to appeal to Government to assist these people who have virtually lost everything they have to the floodwaters; and most of them live in dangerous areas like the Otupu Bridge.

“The area is exposed to dangerous reptiles with no food, water, electricity, and toilet facilities,” Okoye said.

– Sept. 26, 2018 @ 17:39 GMT |