Flood sacks Ebonyi community

A heavy downpour that lasted nearly three hours on Saturday has sacked residents of Amasiri community in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state, with many of them suffering one economic loss or the other.
The communities affected include: Nde Agwu, Ezimbe and Ohaukwu, all in Poperi, Amasiri.
Other places include SARS office, God’s Descendants Assembly Int’l Church and Amaoko Ohaechara.
Amaechara Ezeke and Amaukwa Ndukwe were also flooded.
Recounting the sad incident to Blueprint, a resident, Okochi Chukwu Obeni, said that the flood could be attributed to blockage of the drainage system in the affected communities by the waste randomly disposed by residents.
One of the victims of the flood, the senior pastor of God’s Descendants Assembly Int’l, Apostle Sylvester Ugo, expressed shock over the whole incident as he stated that it was not up to two hours he left the church after the rain, only to receive a phone call that the whole church was flooded.
He called on approximate authorities to help them open up the drainages from Amasiri Junction, through SARS office, for easy flow of water; as the mega beer depot had also blocked the water ways.
Another resident, Mrs Uwa Enya Unya, whose house was also flooded, said that the flood was mysterious.
She said that she expected to see waterlog after the torrential rain, but that there was none, only for her to reach her house to discover that the whole compound was flooded.