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[00:02:42] of
[00:02:47] of is often thought of as permanent,
[00:02:50] mountains stand, revers cave their parts and
[00:02:54] stay hold their ground, but look closely at the map of
[00:02:58] Nigeria and you will... witness slow motion tragedy
[00:03:01] happening in Annambra ecological
[00:03:04] of degradation with 21 local government areas and
[00:03:08] four major seats at 68%
[00:03:11] of urbanization rate. Anembrar state covers a
[00:03:15] landmas of 4,844
[00:03:19] square kilometers, making it the second
[00:03:22] in smallest state in Nigeria right behind
[00:03:24] Lagus. For a while Lagus reaches
[00:03:28] outward, conquering the old. to expand its borders
[00:03:31] andra is
[00:03:34] in shrinking day by day, yay by yay, the
[00:03:37] earth beneath our feet is being swaled
[00:03:40] h.
[00:03:44] of
[00:03:46] of
[00:03:48] of
[00:04:11] 40% of anendrous landmass is encombered
[00:04:15] by gully erosion, this is not just land
[00:04:18] degradation, with a population of 8
[00:04:22] of million
[00:04:24] of 921,39 established in
[00:04:27] 2025. this is an existential
[00:04:31] of emergency as
[00:04:34] of governor of declared during his campaigns and write before his
[00:04:38] inauguration, environment is number
[00:04:42] one existential
[00:04:43] threat.
[00:04:47] a fundamental existential that is
[00:04:50] of the environment.
[00:04:54] why
[00:04:54] an
[00:04:58] is a cr alignment of nature? and human pressure.
[00:05:02] Anembra
[00:05:03] of features a
[00:05:04] of dangerously vulnerable combination,
[00:05:06] of loose highly iradable sandy soils paired with
[00:05:09] intense torrential rainfall patterns.
[00:05:13] compounded by this is our high population
[00:05:16] density, the second highest in
[00:05:18] Nigeria. Annembra state has a population
[00:05:22] versity of 269 square kilometers
[00:05:26] and 2956 square kilometers
[00:05:30] density for available land. Human
[00:05:33] activity is violently accelerated what nature
[00:05:37] started. Between 30 to 40% of
[00:05:41] Anamber's total land. is actively under threat or
[00:05:45] severely impacted by erosion. when
[00:05:49] i was contesting for this office in
[00:05:52] 2021 and in our vision
[00:05:55] 2017, in my
[00:05:59] manifesto document, soluto solution, the
[00:06:02] people's manifesto, greater anumbra
[00:06:05] and anambra vision
[00:06:08] 2017, the environment was
[00:06:10] identified. as Anambra's number
[00:06:14] one existential threat right
[00:06:17] now, local authorities reports over
[00:06:21] 100 active gully erosion sites scuttered across
[00:06:25] the state from oko,
[00:06:27] Nanka, we are
[00:06:31] in trouble, if the I
[00:06:33] think I my advise the government
[00:06:37] of Annambra state should try to release
[00:06:41] documents, information. on erosion because our people
[00:06:44] have not known that we are all sitting on
[00:06:48] the major problem of
[00:06:52] erosion must give it erosion to
[00:06:55] fraud after fraud the next thing is the land
[00:06:59] texture and topography the world bank came
[00:07:03] in to know what they can do
[00:07:06] from it was
[00:07:09] 1980-82 and shagari
[00:07:13] awarded contract a German company Ronasco would
[00:07:17] have those company if what they did that and if they have not done
[00:07:21] it by now this erosion must have been trading up to
[00:07:24] anocha and other local government
[00:07:28] so they came in federal government
[00:07:32] invited them we work with them for year plus
[00:07:35] they can be able to map out all the major size they can be able
[00:07:39] to do the estimate. but by the time they are
[00:07:43] concluding
[00:07:44] the their tin expired, they left and all the
[00:07:48] time for instance during the time of econoby that was major
[00:07:52] landstand nanka that cleared almost half the village
[00:07:55] in so we shouted and
[00:07:59] shouted,
[00:08:00] was in
[00:08:00] the councel then 87 88 the
[00:08:04] econoby came in and look at what is happening
[00:08:08] he said mr man what is your name told him
[00:08:10] my name
[00:08:11] he said no your name is erosion and that's since
[00:08:14] 1987 people started calling me erosion because in
[00:08:18] fact that's the news
[00:08:21] and the the gravity the
[00:08:25] devastation attracted the
[00:08:28] then secretary commonw secretary general he visited
[00:08:32] that place life he said that they were a meeting that it was advised to
[00:08:36] leach to nanka know whether people are sailing we are begging
[00:08:40] the government of... even begging him, the man knows
[00:08:44] the problem, even more than me, but the only thing is that
[00:08:48] resources uh to do
[00:08:51] it, we know state cannot fund it
[00:08:54] alone, what is dying to do now the
[00:08:58] government the cities, let me try
[00:09:02] emergency something,
[00:09:04] but we need to reach out to federal
[00:09:08] government and foreign donors even if it take two
[00:09:11] years, to get foreign donors, if you can bring world bank
[00:09:15] back or the donors to handle this
[00:09:18] erosion problem, outside that we are in trouble, no state
[00:09:22] government will tackle erosion and pay
[00:09:25] salary,
[00:09:29] this erosion has been exist for many many
[00:09:32] years, you see
[00:09:35] nankankas seven villages, just like uh
[00:09:39] when you are talking of island surrender by
[00:10:13] both moral, both physical, money and every other
[00:10:17] thing to see this, but the the problem is that the
[00:10:21] type of flood that used to came this...
[00:10:25] erosion is too much, is not something that town can
[00:10:29] control, so we need the proper help, both local
[00:10:32] government, state government, nigeria and even all the
[00:10:36] entire world, because this is as you
[00:10:40] see this one, there is another one, which I can believe
[00:10:44] that even in the whole world, that one, if you see that one, is the
[00:10:48] highest dilution so
[00:10:49] far.
[00:10:56] "we will be grateful to the government and to the world
[00:11:00] because we are losing everything, we are not just losing
[00:11:03] lands, i was told
[00:11:07] that one
[00:11:11] oli, have
[00:11:15] to back one woman with
[00:11:16] his son, with
[00:11:17] her son, because the house, family,
[00:11:21] their house fell, they were sleeping when eurosion."
[00:11:26] happened the the house they were living in was dragged
[00:11:29] into erosion, erosion consumed it, lucky
[00:11:33] enough they didn't die, actually have to go
[00:11:37] into the erosion, back the mother and was able to hold
[00:11:41] a small boy and bring them out, the
[00:11:44] small boy i'm talking about is is an old man who is late
[00:11:48] now, that's where this thing started, if you go
[00:11:51] through this erosion, if you go... check it
[00:11:55] by kilometers, other six kilometers where i started, it
[00:11:59] connects us to, connects us
[00:12:03] to oko and there about, so it's not a one place
[00:12:06] thing, so
[00:12:10] the equilovia access, massive landslide level
[00:12:14] cannons are advancing like slow moving
[00:12:17] monsters, swallowing entire communities,
[00:12:21] ancestral shrined in critical economic lifeline.
[00:12:27] The tragedy is compounded by the
[00:12:30] anthropogenic, the man may, in purpose some
[00:12:34] water management turns domestic rain into
[00:12:37] weapons.
[00:12:55] building to rise without mandatory catch peeds, water is
[00:12:59] piped directly onto unpaved earth, gaining
[00:13:02] level velocity, can see
[00:13:06] if any rain fs, all this place will be
[00:13:10] full of flood, if you can see
[00:13:13] here that people
[00:13:15] just avoiding
[00:13:19] the uh the flood from here now down to there
[00:13:22] even all these houses will be fload
[00:13:25] up, even uh, this road, you can't walk this
[00:13:29] road, this road now, if you just walk
[00:13:32] just few meter by see the fence and the
[00:13:36] houses that the flood pushed down,
[00:13:39] uhh, so this train have been disturbing the
[00:13:43] people of this uh area, the flood spoil
[00:13:47] the transformer here, you can see us
[00:13:51] uh, refording the transformer raising it up to. make it
[00:13:55] to be be useful, we the
[00:13:59] people around this place doesn't sleep here at night
[00:14:02] cuz when at night like this rain will if rain just
[00:14:06] start they wake up begin to carry the some
[00:14:09] them sleep a church because the
[00:14:13] flood everywhere was filled of
[00:14:17] water so we are begging government to help
[00:14:20] us this thing is too much
[00:14:24] for... a state to do or federal
[00:14:28] government,
[00:14:29] even any government, federal government, state government
[00:14:33] can hear our cry and come and help us in
[00:14:37] illegal unregulated sand mining that streams fragile
[00:14:40] landscapes and you have a catastrophe waiting
[00:14:44] to
[00:14:44] explode,
[00:14:49] then i have to thank the government buse it's not easy, i know
[00:14:53] that um communities are facing the problem of this
[00:14:57] erosion issue and the government of this
[00:15:01] day today have been trying so much to make sure that those community
[00:15:05] have peace in their areas so the work
[00:15:09] initially started very well and within that very
[00:15:13] period we thought that everything work out fine better than
[00:15:16] it was but today the
[00:15:20] community
[00:15:21] we are suffering in general are suffering we are suffering the major we are
[00:15:25] facing as a community is that most the building, most the
[00:15:29] structures are affected, many them are collapsing,
[00:15:33] the the farmers are
[00:15:34] no longer doing their jobs even children to
[00:15:38] cross within
[00:15:40] the areas where such a erration
[00:15:43] problem, so lot of problem
[00:15:46] is coming there every day, people are afraid to go
[00:15:50] there, the houses around, even the the
[00:15:53] plants, the cash crops there, they are
[00:15:57] always affected by
[00:16:00] the the erosion issue, recognizing this looming
[00:16:03] apocalypse from day one, governor so...
[00:16:07] made a historic courageous choice, while
[00:16:11] past administrations looked away, salud the made
[00:16:15] environments, the fifth pillar of his administration's grand
[00:16:18] agenda. he didn't just plan, he declared a
[00:16:22] formal state of emergency on the ananbra
[00:16:24] environment. under governor suludo, the
[00:16:28] state stopped waiting for disasters to happen and took the
[00:16:32] battle to the root courses. the passage the
[00:16:36] environmental management. protection and administration
[00:16:40] law give the state legal teeth.
[00:16:43] now households are legally mandated to build catch
[00:16:47] peats to retain rain water. dedicated tax
[00:16:51] force hunts down illegal sand miners in pounding heavy
[00:16:55] machineries for up to year. okay geographically
[00:16:59] like say this place is the lowest b at the lowest
[00:17:03] position by content so water collects from
[00:17:07] different. and adjacent communities in this this area, this is
[00:17:11] called, that place is
[00:17:14] called, place why have i have
[00:17:17] the river, so it rushes all the
[00:17:20] way from adjacent communities and come to discharge in this place and there's no
[00:17:24] way to go out because it's at the lowest position,
[00:17:28] so over time when once it starting the torential flood begin to
[00:17:32] accumulate and at the pick the season, pick the season begin
[00:17:36] to... damage community, there will be
[00:17:39] devastation,
[00:17:41] we be sacking people, all the communities like above, the
[00:17:45] above, people, all them, the whole houses
[00:17:48] will be flooded and including this place, including this place, overflow from the main
[00:17:52] road, it will be like river, very big river, like you seeing, it could
[00:17:56] be everywhere, like at that incident, this compound
[00:18:00] was loaded more than th hours, four hours,
[00:18:04] fl up to 3/4 feet deep. deep look
[00:18:08] at the vehicles, you can see the vehicles there, vehicles, they were all, they were
[00:18:12] all spotted by by flood, but the the only
[00:18:16] the seven grades we have here is that have catchment
[00:18:19] speech underground,
[00:18:21] all of this compound so that uh, if it resides, if it
[00:18:25] rains, then after a time it disappears into the
[00:18:28] basing, absorbed by the card bases on,
[00:18:32] these are actually remidal measures to contain the flood, but one
[00:18:36] one this comes s begins to overflow, overflow the
[00:18:40] community, we are pleading on behalf their
[00:18:42] majesty
[00:18:44] is pleading that the government will come to come and
[00:18:48] interven and other bodies can come who can
[00:18:51] come with that byecological fund or
[00:18:54] whatever other agencies that can come and
[00:18:58] rescue us, rescue the community, every new road built
[00:19:02] under governor suludos administration is engineered
[00:19:06] with street and in drainage
[00:19:08] parameters, we have seen
[00:19:12] targeted rapid responsite stabilization such
[00:19:15] as the approved um village remediation in
[00:19:18] aba, from the 100% completed
[00:19:22] works at
[00:19:23] -
[00:19:29] to legacy interventions inherited from the world bank new
[00:19:33] map era now being pushed toward completion. to
[00:19:37] the solution mandate, if you come to this side some months
[00:19:41] back, this particular place now, if you visit this place some months back,
[00:19:45] it was like dead trap, we were all just waiting to
[00:19:49] see when the erosion will chop up our building, and then at some
[00:19:53] point we saw these contractors and they came - sometimes
[00:19:57] - lot of guys might likely not want to take this part the route of which
[00:20:01] is actually one the closest entrance to our uh
[00:20:04] facility, so they will rather prefer to take ' these other long
[00:20:08] rots because the state the road as at that time and they might
[00:20:12] be scared that maybe their vehicle might likely fall into that raving or
[00:20:16] something so that was the experience and sometimes
[00:20:19] in the night it will not be a place you would like to pass through at night because
[00:20:23] it's kind of dark and scary and all of that we say very big thank you to
[00:20:27] the governor the state and we encourage him to do even more good works
[00:20:31] even as he has been doing the
[00:20:35] state is fighting back with breath it
[00:20:38] hards, we are still at home, preparing for work,
[00:20:42] so all of sudden some men that went
[00:20:46] to their farm saw something like lime
[00:20:50] so they started lining alarm so everybody came outside they were looking
[00:20:54] at - they don't know what is this or they don't know all of
[00:20:57] sudden they just everybody just went back to their home but this
[00:21:01] is our house we live near the thing so all of
[00:21:05] sudden we started hearing some strange voice so we
[00:21:09] came out and what we saw was this
[00:21:11] eroption and we started shouting so
[00:21:15] everybody now started coming out that was how this say lasted
[00:21:19] for one week, but that time is doing raining season, every time
[00:21:23] rain for will expand. all i have to say is
[00:21:27] thank you mr. governor, we
[00:21:29] are we really appreciate like we are happy, we really at least we
[00:21:32] did not run out of our house again, because at first we packed all
[00:21:36] our things, because we thought this our house would also
[00:21:40] fell because so many houses fell into the orion, so but
[00:21:44] now we are happy, we said thank you mr. governor, we really
[00:21:47] appreciate, you are just a good. man, so thank
[00:21:51] you, at least we are safe now. sadly,
[00:21:55] this has cost the state several billions of nara with the
[00:21:59] problems largely unscratched and
[00:22:02] unsolved. this town has been suffering
[00:22:06] from erosion. um,
[00:22:09] right, more than 30 years
[00:22:12] ago, but of recent because of
[00:22:16] economic activity, development, urbanization,
[00:22:20] and so many other activities, the the erosion
[00:22:23] problem in the town was escalated about
[00:22:27] four years ago, there was um
[00:22:31] this drain that carries flood from Nanka
[00:22:35] through Ezoku down to the other
[00:22:38] is got caught and
[00:22:42] the this village organized and got it
[00:22:45] repaired, then the next year we woke
[00:22:48] up one morning, and um alarm was
[00:22:52] raised over number of
[00:22:55] buildings that collapsed carried
[00:22:59] away by the erosi forces.
[00:23:02] unfortunately this place
[00:23:04] my cousin's house and the other buildings
[00:23:08] around several them were sweped away by
[00:23:12] that colossal erosion attack uh
[00:23:16] professor aginam's house and his brother they were the first.
[00:23:20] victims, then the later other
[00:23:23] buildings and other families followed, they were swept
[00:23:27] away by the same eration and we cried to
[00:23:31] the governor
[00:23:33] and um and the governor
[00:23:36] interven timely, because
[00:23:40] if not for his intervention, by now maybe more
[00:23:44] than 50 houses would have been carried
[00:23:47] away, so we are grateful. to God and we are
[00:23:51] grateful to governor that he headed our cries and
[00:23:55] came very very early to intervent and
[00:23:58] prevented what will
[00:24:00] have been a holocaust in this village
[00:24:04] and yet, despite the regulatory enforcement,
[00:24:08] despite the heavy state budget allocations, despite the
[00:24:12] blood, sweat and engineering triamps,
[00:24:16] we are fighting a war with our bare hands, we have...
[00:24:20] have very loose soil formation a
[00:24:24] numbra, that soil formation is regarded as tanker
[00:24:27] formation, so the lataritic cover we have in anamb
[00:24:31] is 5 meters, some about 15 meters, so maximum is 5 to
[00:24:35] 50, 15 meters, so our soil is
[00:24:38] very friable, okay, so
[00:24:42] that's you primarily led to erosion, in
[00:24:46] most places we have over 1ous active erosion sites, at least most community. have
[00:24:50] one, two or three and some people have more eron sites in
[00:24:53] ananmbra, so it's a very big threat and uh, even if the
[00:24:57] state government deploy all the resources we have to deal with flooding and
[00:25:01] erosion, we can be able to deal with it. i think the governor has done
[00:25:05] well
[00:25:06] so far, if you look at this challenge we have here uh, this is just
[00:25:09] the
[00:25:10] phase one, the governor has taken care of ph two and ph three, so we are looking at
[00:25:13] ph which will cost uh uh between 9 to 15 billion
[00:25:17] today with that will tell you the size.
[00:25:20] the uh uh problem we have, i think and
[00:25:23] this one part these challenges we have here is uh
[00:25:27] the the
[00:25:30] people of Anand state has you
[00:25:33] know sometimes they go
[00:25:36] against uh nature that way
[00:25:40] because water must always find it a lower level so when people build on
[00:25:44] waterways this is the resultant effect governor
[00:25:47] saludo has maintained total bru so cander,
[00:25:51] fixing the entire network of over 100 deep gully
[00:25:54] erosion sites across Annambra would cause trillions
[00:25:58] of naira, trillions an amount,
[00:26:02] that completely eclipses the independent balance sheet of a
[00:26:06] subnational state, whole communities first the
[00:26:10] threat of submansion and anambra
[00:26:14] rightly said is the goldly erosion capital of
[00:26:18] africa if not the world, that
[00:26:21] is just to point out the
[00:26:25] urgency the matter, and even if we spend the entire
[00:26:29] resources the state for the next 10 years, not
[00:26:32] even scratch the problem, it's beyond government spending
[00:26:36] money, it's what we all must take -
[00:26:40] destiny in our hands. about
[00:26:43] 160 out of 179 communities, that's
[00:26:47] 89% of our communities face
[00:26:50] imminent threat from expanding
[00:26:54] golies all
[00:26:56] over, we have over
[00:26:59] 100 active gully sit.
[00:27:05] over 1,000 active
[00:27:09] gold sides all over the
[00:27:12] state,
[00:27:15] and while we have done so much to stem it, still
[00:27:19] say some new
[00:27:21] sides,
[00:27:25] over 30% of our landmass is already
[00:27:28] degraded and up to 70%.
[00:27:33] versus severere ecological
[00:27:35] vulnerability can not
[00:27:39] do this alone, we are watching
[00:27:43] our homes sleep away into the earth,
[00:27:47] we are calling out, appealing and
[00:27:51] crying out to the federal government of Nigeria,
[00:27:54] we are imploring international development
[00:27:58] partners, global environmental bodies and people
[00:28:02] of good will across the globe, here our
[00:28:05] cry, declare a national ecological
[00:28:09] emergency on anambrast state, come to
[00:28:13] our rescue before our land is wiped out the map
[00:28:17] entirely, anambra is a land of un matched
[00:28:21] opportunities, resilience, commerce,
[00:28:24] brilliants and hard-working people, the land the
[00:28:28] aziky ways,
[00:28:32] overrun
[00:28:42] among we others, cannot a collapse on earth by ourselves, let the world come to
[00:28:46] our end, and the light
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[00:30:23] From Nagos, the nation's commercial
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[00:30:37] tonight,
[00:30:43] hello and welcome tonight
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