The member representing Ogbaru Two Constituency in the State House of Assembly , Sir Somtochukwu Udeze, has described as disheartening the exclusion of Anambra
state from the beneficiaries of the federal government’s one point six billion naira flood intervention fund to sixteen states in view of the enormous devastation which flood has caused in the state.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, Sir Somchukwu noted that flood has rendered many families in Ogbaru, Onitsha North , Onitsha South, Anambra – East, Anambra West and Ayamelum council area homeless and destroyed property worth billions of naira.
The lawmaker who called on the federal government to include the state among the beneficiaries of the flood intervention fund, maintained that the fund would help to rebuild the ravaged structures and resettle millions of displaced persons from the affected local government areas.
He extolled the efforts of Governor Willie Obiano in funding the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) adding that the agency has done well in addressing some of the problems arising from flooding in the state.
Sir Somtochukwu expressed hope that various memos already sent to the National Emergency Management Agency by the State Ministry of Environment, SEMA and other relevant organs for the inclusion of the state among the beneficiaries of the flood intervention fund would yield position result.
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