By Nwanosike Onu, Awka5 hours 42 minutes ago
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•Oko poly Rector seeks govt’s help to save institution
THE fear of a fresh landslide has thrown Oko, a community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State into panic Many residents fear their houses are threatened.
Oko monarch Igwe Laz Ekwueme, has cried out to both the federal and state governments to save his domain from the lurking calamity.
Ekwueme, who wept yesterday at while hosting Ben Nwankwo, who is representing the Orumba North and South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, listed his palace among the threatened property.
He said the landslide, which took a new dimension, few weeks back, happened again on Sunda, threatened his palace.
It was learnt that the erosion has been threatening the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Innovative Centre (the Art Gallery) being built at the permanent site of Oko Federal Polytechnic.
Rector of the institution, Prof. Godwin Onu, who took the federal lawmaker round the premises, said the school’s meager resources cannot save them from the erosion menace.
Ekwueme told Nwankwo that work had stopped at the erosion site after it was recently flagged off by Governor Peter Obi.
The contractors handling the project claimed that they have not been paid any mobilisation fee.
He said: “Landslide wants to drive me and my subjects out of Oko community. We are no longer safe in our land, we thought the problem had abated but it happened again on Sunday night and we are now leaving at the mercy of God.
“Please, help us talk to our governor, Mr. Peter Obi and the Federal Government to come to our rescue by making funds available to the contractors to save our lives.”
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