Gully erosion takes toll on UNIBEN, communities
Some staff and students residing close to the Ugbowo Campus of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) and residents in Iguo-Osaigie and other surrounding communities in Uhunmwonde Local Gove+rnment Area of Edo are about to be cut off because of the ravaging gully erosion in the area.
The surrounding communities, Iguo-Hana, Iguo-Efosa, Oke-Okehn, Okun Magiajemen and Utteh have called on the relevant authorities to come to their rescue.
The residents said the erosion had already cut off the alternative route and the bridge linking Ugbowo and Ikpoba River.
The gully had also halted the ongoing construction of the Ekosodin Road that links the area to the New Lagos-Benin Expressway.
The Secretary-General of Efosa Community, Mr Aghahowa Obayinwana, pleaded that relevant authorities should come over to put an end to the innumerable damages the gullies had caused.
A lecturer at the Faculty of Management Sciences, UNIBEN, Dr Uwagbor Eboigbe, said the situation could aggravate, if not checked urgently.
“I am very sure, as you can see from the sign post, that this project has been awarded at different times.
“If the fund needed is too much for one agency to foot, they should employ a syndicated approach and collectively get it done.
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