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Rojenny Sports Village Set To Collapse Into Anambra Gully Erosion

By Goodness Ndukuba on September 2, 2023

The popular Rojenny Sports and Games Village is threatened by the gully erosion with flood water destroying the tartan track of the 30,000-capacity sports stadium, lawn tennis and handball pitches, courts and lawns.

Deepening the fate of the Expressway is that the erosion has started eating deep under the Owerri – Onitsha lane which is currently being shared by motorists to and from Onitsha and Owerri respectively.

Conducting reporters through the gully erosion site the Chairman of Idemili South local government area Iyom Amaka Obi who spoke through the two Councilors representing Oba Ward 1, Hon. Uchechukwu Ubadi and Hon. Nzubechukwu Ibe noted that all measures taken to checkmate the ravaging erosion has been destroyed by flood water adding that the water channels constructed about three months ago has collapsed into the gully.

“When the state government came here with their counterparts from the Federal government it was not as wide and as deep as this and as the rains continue it will keep widening”

“As it stands now over 400 buildings and several hectares of undeveloped lands are at risk and the worst of it all is that the gully would first of all eat deep under the express way leaving the road hanging like a cliff and at the mercy of road users.”

“When it started, we had to dump refuse into the gully last year and with the help of Anambra State Waste Management Agency (ASWAMA)we used the refuse to control the flow of flood.

"But the owners of those empty lands stopped us from doing that accusing us of trying to take over their property so we stopped and ASWAMA had used the refuse to check another erosion site in Nnewi.

“Since we stopped the gully has deepened and many houses are going down every day and with the rate of rain fall only God can save those buildings and their owners” Obi lamented.

The Chief Consultant to Rojenny Sports Village Engr Jonny Obinwa explained that the flood water causing the erosion flows from Ichi, Nnobi, Ojoto Uruagu- Oba to the gully.

"The flood causing this gully erosion flows from Ichi, Nnobi Ojoto Uruagu-Oba communities in the Idemili South local government area and because the gutters and water channels are too small for the flood it overflows carrying the channels away and dumping them into the gully erosion”

“As you can see the walls of the Games Village have collapsed as well as some part of the spectator’s stand of the Stadium has also collapsed and the lawn tennis and handball pitches and Courts have been submerged by flood as well as the Olympic size swimming pool.

“The Stadium has a capacity of 30, 000 spectators but with what is happening now we need a lot of work to do to protect the sporting facilities that are in the Games Village”

“This is a facility that has hosted over twenty National football teams both Supper Eagles, Under 20 and Under 17 set of teams and today the flood is ravaging everywhere and as you can see the g400ully erosion behind the stadium is growing and it would soon link the gully erosion that has cut off the Onitsha – Owerri Express Way” he said.

Source Daily Sports Nigeria

Posted September 2, 2023