76,000 ANAMBRA FLOOD VICTIMS EVACUATED

Over 76,000 victims of the devastating floods that hit about 200 communities in five local government areas of Anambra State are being evacuated from their homes to relief camps in Onitsha and Nteje.

The evacuation came after two persons, a woman and a boy, died at Ogbaru in the flood that submerged their homes on Sunday night.

The Governor of  Anambra State, Peter Obi, abandoned the Independence anniversary parade in Awka and led the evacuation exercise on Monday in  Ogbaru Local Government Area whose communities are the hardest hit in the flooding that has crippled communication and economic activities in the communities.

Many of the victims were reluctant to move due to their attachment to their ancestral homes.

The situation is getting beyond what the state government alone can handle, personnel of the Navy, Army, Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps, the Red Cross Society of Nigeria, the Peace Corps and other voluntary agencies were involved  in the exercise.