NDOKWA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA (NELGA) PRESS RELEASE OF TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH 2022 RE: UPDTAE ON THE PREVAILING FLOOD SITUATION IN NELGA

NDOKWA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA (NELGA) PRESS RELEASE OF TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH 2022

RE: UPDTAE ON THE PREVAILING FLOOD SITUATION IN NELGA

1. Greetings from the Office of the Executive Chairman of Ndokwa East LGA, Aboh, and Delta State, Nigeria.

2. As the water continue to recede, even with several warnings that the flooding of this year is not over because the usual rains scarcity has vanished and areas that ordinarily will be out of rains are still experiencing torrential rainfall with no significant signs of the usual conventional rains.

3. As the flood waters begin to recede, the NELGA Council focus is more of relief efforts aimed at returning things to normal. Most times, during this post flood phase, many structures and properties may be needlessly lost and damaged through hasty clean-up procedures. On the basis of this, the Council is commencing wide awareness and sensitization program to let our people know that the best way to help our communities, property, or structure prevent additional damage and maintain its integrity and character during these times of duress is with the use of proper caution and concern.

4. While the water is receding, we encourage our people to plan the future steps to rehabilitation and restoration carefully. Each decision made today affects future decisions which will need to be made tomorrow. The following areas of concern should be addressed during planning:

a. Make Personal Safety the First Priority.

b. Carry out appropriate documentation and condition Assessment

c. Create an inventory of found items, dislodged architectural features, decorative fragments, furnishings, collections, etc. DO NOT THROW AWAY MATERIALS AT WILL. Many items may prove their value as the surrounding restoration or rehabilitation projects proceed.

5. With the receding floods, our people are going to face some new degree of post floods challenging situation. The NELGA Council is therefore soliciting assistance in the following areas since we do not have the capacity to manage it alone across the entire LGA with its Seventy Three major communities that was submerged in water these past three weeks.

a. Quick fix of Ashaka – Kwale Road, Ashaka – Arhade Roads, Ashaka – Aboh Road, Ase Road, Asaba Ase Road, Aboh – Akarai Road, Roads in the seven Ibrede Clans, Iselegu – Inyi/Onuabor road, Oko through the several Utchi clans down to Okpai Roads, Obiikwele Road, Igbuku – Ibrede Road etc. to enable safe commuting back to the flooded communities.

b. Environmental Sanitation and fumigation of the communities including the health and educational facilities

c. Relocation of our displaced people back to their various communities

d. Housekeeping, maintenance, initial cleaning and repairs

e. Initial starter pack like Foodstuff like Palm Oil, Grains, Protein, yams, and other provisions etc., Portable water (bottled or sachets), toiletries’ (Soap, tooth brush and paste etc.) and Mosquito nets etc. to enable people start a living in no matter how small measures.

f. Farm starter items e.g. Cassava stems, stalks, yam seedlings, grains, fishing nets and accessories, farm tools, fertilizers, etc.

6. These post flood needs will be of great priority in the next two weeks at which period we anticipate that most of the flooded communities may be fully accessible.

7. The NELGA Council is aware that palliatives are being taken to the various IDP camps at both Kwale and Ashaka. In addition to the earlier announced donations, some items were recently received from Rt. Hon. Friday Osanebi. Also our daughter Adinkwu Mabel sent some items to the various IDP camps and Rt. Hon. Ossai N Ossai also sent some palliatives to the various IDP camps while the IPD camp at Ashaka powered by DESOPADEC in collaboration with the NELGA Council continues to get the necessary attention to ensure that our people there are safe, sound and healthy with regular feeding and daily stipends to cushion their non-conventional daily needs off meal periods.

8. Yesterday, NELGA Council received the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000.00) from Zenith Bank PLC. So far, The Council has received a total of One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (1,500,000.00) Only donation deposited in the Council Account and earmarked for Post Flood management plans which will be published in due course.

9. The NELGA 2022 Flood Management Committee carried out detailed documentation of number of displaced households in NEGA communities. Please note that a household here refers to arrangements made by persons, individually or in groups, for providing themselves with food or other essentials for living. Also note that the data is based on our records based on the registered community data with our Community Development Department and information gathered from the various communities, IDP camps etc. Therefore if you have contradictory data, kindly contact your ward representatives in the NELGA Flood Committee.

10. NDOKWA EASLT LGA FLOOD IMPACT SUMMARY: As earlier published, all the farmlands in NELGA were flooded beyond any remedy. The impact here is therefore as it affects households in NELGA communities as documented.

Ward Communities Displaced Households

1 Umu Osimili Ossissa        22

 Umuleke Ossisa         28

 Umu Eze Ossisa         26

 Olao Ossisa         21

 Umu Uno                 31

 Umu Okolo         26

2 Afor Umuachi                 55

 Iselegu                77

 Obikwele                         52

 Afor Ogbedigbo                 59

 Afor Okolori                 23

 Afor Obetim                104

 Afor Obiogo                 22

 Afor Ogbeti                 23

3 Aballa Osimili         287

 Aballa Obodo        188

 Aballa Uno                231

 Inyi                        239

 Onuabor                        212

4 Okpai Oluchi                292

 Beneku                         298

 Okpai Umu Agulu                 74

 Okpai Ibusu                 93

 Okpai Ashaka                134

 Okpai Obodoyibo                78

 Okpai Obi Eze                 98

 Obalu Utchi                 109

 Oboma Utchi                143

 Asaba Utchi                 121

 Onitsha Utchi                72

 Obecha Utchi                156

 Umu Ochi Utchi                149

 Okubedo Utchi                172

5 Aboh               362

 Abalagada                216

 Ise Onokpor                96

 Asemoku                 93

 Abuator                        97

 Umu Iwele’                88

 Agwe Iyom                115

 Agwe Etiti                 167

 Anam Camp 1 & 2        112

 Umuti                151

 Afiankwor                 97

 Akarai Obodo                213

 Akarai Etiti                209

6 Umuolu                  273

 Okpokilika                 102

 Adia Obi Aka          99

 Onyah                148

 Owuriobia                99

 Warri Irri                        91

 Otuoku                97

7 Ase                        129

 Asaba Ase                148

 Iwene Ase                 117

 Anam Camp                126

 Ogbokor Ase                 109

 Ekeregbesi Ase                 98

 Egbeme Ase                102

8 Ibedeni                 215

 Azagba                213

 Ekpe                 128

 Obodo Okorafor        92

 Osafu                91

9 Ibrede               388

 Igbuku                196

 Iyede Ame                205

 Lagos Iyede                188

 Awah          179

 Anyama                  124

 Onogbokor                 176

10 Ashaka               356

 Ushie                 152

 Ugute                 126

 Egwede                  88

 Asaba Ashaka           92

 Obi Ivi            32

 Ogbarude                 41

 Obi Ujene            27

 Aballam                    33

 Total             10,611

11. We are still calling on our various community leaders, NELGA Sons and Daughters from the various communities both at home and in diaspora as well as well-wishers to come to the aid of the people of these various communities in NELGA as we look forward to dousing the pains inflicted on our people by the abnormal 2022 flood.

12. The NELGA Council will appreciate any assistance as we firm up all plans for the implementation of our post flood management programs because it’s very obvious that the Council cannot do it alone, especially since the entire NELGA Council was equally submerged during this 2022 flood and will be requiring a lot of maintenance and repairs including proper sanitation and fumigation before we can resume fully at the NELGA Council Secretariat at Aboh.

13. Please remember NELGA in your prayers because we need all the moral and spiritual support we can get at this time in addition to any other assistance available

14. The NELGA Flood Committee next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 28th October 2022. The meeting will focus on the NELGA post flood plans. All members of the NELGA flood committee will continue to be responsible for all flood management activities in their various wards.

15. The key contacts of the NELGA Flood Committee for each INEC ward remain as follows:

Team One (Ward 1, 2 and 3):

i. Ward 1 :- Ossisa Clan

a. Chief Jerry Obiajulu Nwasanokwu (08033882109)

b. Hon. Columbus Osakwe (08063397407

ii. Ward 2 :- Afor, Iselegu and Obikwele Clans

a. Chief London Onwuka (08033418711)

b. Hon. Prince Nwaobi (08037792875

iii. Ward 3:- Aballa, Inyi and Onuabor Clans

a. Austin Azubike Ugbomah (08037215917)

b. Hon. Jude Ogechukwu Isicheli (08034090354)

c. Hon. Prince Onuah (07040127312)

Team Two (Ward 4, 5 and 6):

i. Ward 4 :- Okpai, Beneku and Utchi Clans

a. Hon. Okwuwa Ezechi (08065457004)

b. Hon. Okechukwu Ejechi (08032603936)

ii. Ward 5 :- Aboh and Akarai Clans

a. Hon. Opute Amechi (08033232737)

b. Hon. Ejeke Onyema Lucky (08035219231)

c. Hon. Louis Ogene (07032802531)

d. Hon. Emmanuel Uti  (08038795097)

e. Hon. Victor Ezah (08082164705)

f. Hon. Chukwuemeke Ijomah (08153608965)

iii. Ward 6:- Umuolu, Onyah and Adai Obiaka Clans

a. Hon, Paul Enueme (08068523572)

b. Hon. Prince Okwokwo (08030843682)

c. Hon. Friday Edemenya (07030318715)

d. Hon. Adaku Joesphine Chukwumah (08108428756)

Team Three (Ward 7, 8 and 9):  Hon. Felix Edemenya (08032902229)

i. Ward 7 :- Ase and Asaba Ase Clans

a. Hon. Felix Edemenya (08032902229)

b. Hon. Chukwuma Iwube (08072482212)

c. Hon. Benson Chukwuma (07035453122)

ii. Ward 8 :- Azagba, Ibendeni Ekpe Clans

a. Hon. Austin Oguafor (09034630788)

b. Hon. Justus Chukwumah (08133464356)

iii. Ward 9 :- Ibrede and Igbuku Clans

a. Hon, Israel Arueighe (08149016856)

b. Hon. Harrison Abadhe (08033646998)

iv. Ward 10 (Ashaka and Ushie Clans)

a. Mr. Anthony Okudini (08134048084)

b. Hon. Robert Ilide (08165280531)

c. Hon. Patrick Ugbogu (08131222427)

d. Mr. Chukwudi Azaka (08038621738)

e. Engr. Kingsley Ndanenu (08121960617)

v. Elders Advisory Council Secretary: Albert Iyiacha (08032350166)

vi. Secretary to Well-Meaning Leaders: Hon. Chika Ossai (08035422645)

Kindly refer all flood related concerns, enquiries, suggestions and information regarding each specific ward to the individual ward committee for necessary action and follow up.

16. NELGA Council is not unmindful of the need to be more proactive in our approach to flooding situation in the future as we have developed short, medium and long term plans within the Council potential capacity to minimize the flood impact to barest minimum effect on our LGA going forward. As soon as we are done with the post flood activities, we will roll out the next year flood management plans with keen effort to start saving monthly towards it.

17. We promise to keep providing you all with necessary updates about the flood situation in NELGA as we progress.  Thanks for your prayers, support, cooperation and commitment. May Almighty God bless and reward you all beyond measures.

Signed:

Juan Amechee Governor.

Ndokwa East LGA Chairman.