The people of Oranto village in Ukpo Community, Dunukofia Council Area have sent a save our soul message to government at all levels to save them from gully erosion ravaging the area.
The gully, which has sinked many houses rendering some indigenes homeless, is now threatening over fifty plots of land in the community.
ABS crew observed that the villagers have done a lot of interventions to check the menace but it kept on expanding, pulling down water channels constructed to manage it.
Speaking after conducting newsmen round the gully, the Chairman of Oranto village, Chief Sunday Nwachukwu lamented the havoc that has befallen them by the devastation , explaining that they have through self-help raised money to manage the flood but their efforts have proven abortive.
Chief Nwachukwu beckoned on government at all levels to come to their aid, stressing that if nothing is done urgently the whole village will be wiped out.
An indigene who has already lost part of his building to the gully, Mr Clifford Akidi from Iruozuom Oranto village, bemoaned his plight lamenting that he has no other place to go to.
In their separate speeches, the Woman Leader of Oranto Village Ukpo, Mrs Mary Anyaeji, and Mrs Chizube Okonkwo as well as Mrs Eunice Muogu cried out to the federal Ministry of Environment and other relevant agencies to come to their aid.
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