Photo showing the state of Igbide road. (Photo credit – Ovedhe Hezekiah)
By Ovedhe Hezekiah- Warri
Indigenes of Igbide Community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State have appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to construct roads destroyed by flood in Igbide community.
Igbide and its sub-communities were submerged and ravaged by flood which destroyed roads linking other sub-communities in the area.
A resident of the community, Mr. Grandball Oreva, in an appeal to the state governor on behalf of the community said, “the horrible effect of the 2020 flood has left all the roads leading to and within the community, un-motorable.”
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“Some of the roads leading to the community which includes, Igbide- Olomoro road, Igbide -Emede road are in a deplorable states, due to the continued flood that has destroyed them. The Emede-Igbide is an ancient road that has almost turned to farm path.”
“Most recently, Owodokpokpo, a sub-community of Igbide has been cut off from the entire world by the recent flood.
“We are soliciting that an urgent attention is given to these road mostly that of the Owodokpokpo and other sub communities of Igbide can be reconnected to the outside world because the people are experiencing untold hardship, hunger and starvation due to the flood as the communities are no longer accessible”, Oreva appealed.
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