Flood renders over 300 residents homeless in Abia 

Akoo River successful Nkalunta Ibere village, Otu Uzo-Ibere, successful Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State has overflowed its banks and flooded homes and farms successful the community, destroying houses, livestock, poultry and churches.

The incident, which occurred aft a week-long dense rainfall, rendered much than 300 radical homeless.

According to members of the community, Akoo River roseate supra its mean h2o level pursuing persistent rainfall that pounded the assemblage for 1 week.

The interaction of the overflowing river, according to residents of Nkalunta Ibere village, besides swept reptiles, food and different aquatic animals from the stream onto the surrounding land.

Narrating the travails of the assemblage to journalists, the President-General of Ibere Clan Development Union Federated, Maxwell Otuonye, and the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, House of Assembly campaigner for Ikwuano LGA, Kalu Chukwuemeka Israel, called for contiguous assistance from the Abia Government and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.

They noted that the villagers had been exposed to hunger and imaginable illness outbreaks, arsenic galore of them were presently sleeping successful the acold pursuing the demolition of their homes.

Also speaking to journalists aft visiting the affected homes and farms, the Chairman of Ikwuano LGA, Anthony Nwaubani, desc...