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Thursday, January 23, 2025
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Anambra intensifies measures to mitigate flooding in coastal communities

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Anambra State Authorities has intensified steps in direction of implementing environmental preservation strategies and constructing flood-resilient communities in coastal areas of the State.

A two-day workshop on flood resilient options organized by the state Bodily Planning Board along with a non-public agency was adopted by a area go to to pick Coastal Communities in Anambra East and West Native Authorities Areas.

The sector go to turned crucial for higher appreciation of the subject material of the workshop which explored methodologies to pair indigenous information with modern options that guarantee environmental preservation of conventional structure in direction of constructing flood resilient Communities in flood-prone areas of the State.

The Communities visited included Umueze Anam, Mmiata Anam Nzam and Umueri and the go to served as the start of the implementation of the resolutions from the workshop.

Chike Maduekwe, Chairman, Anambra State Bodily Planning Board, defined throughout the go to that it was to style out methods to mitigate flooding in Coastal Communities within the State to keep away from flood disasters.

Maduekwe mentioned that Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Administration is deliberate about constructing a healthful habitable and affluent State which is why it’s already collaborating with United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) to develop a flood resilient plan for the State.

Additionally talking, the normal ruler of Umueri, Igwe Ben Emeka confused that something that impacts Anambra West, impacts the East, particularly Umueri folks within the river financial institution

It is because the identical river Omambala divides them, simply because the Conventional ruler of Nzam, Igwe John Ogugua recalled that their fore-fathers noticed and survived high-level flooding which stopped with the development of Kainji Dam, till the current local weather change, suggesting that authorities ought to assist by constructing resilient constructions throughout the coastal communities.

Eve Nnaji of the non-public agency within the space, famous that the atmosphere is the primary line of safety, emphasizing that to a big extent, enhancing the atmosphere with the correct vegetation and the correct ecology will assist the flood-affected folks of the state, as towards transferring them.

The Commissioner for Native Authorities, Chieftaincy and Neighborhood Affairs, Tony-Collins Nwabunwanne, who hails from Anambra West described the initiative as laudable as it’s in step with Soludo’s city regeneration agenda and harped on the necessity for correct schooling particularly for individuals who are but to construct homes.

Nwabunwanne confused that half of what’s wanted is whole compliance to the directives and proposals of the state Bodily Planning Board.

Mark Okoye, Managing Director of Anambra State Funding Promotion and Safety Company Ugochi Agalaba-Ehiahuruike, Govt Director of Social and Integral Improvement Centre, amongst others who have been a part of the go to, mentioned that it’ll engender new methods of doing issues within the coastal areas, simply as is obtainable in different international locations of the world.

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