Flood destroys 30 stores in the Anambra market.


Some vendors at the Relief Market in the Anambra county of Ogbaru Local Government Area are tallying their losses after a flood brought on by heavy rains washed away stores, electric poles, and wires from the market.

Mr. David Obidike, the chairman of the market's caretaker committee, revealed this while showing members of his executive team and news reporters through the parts on Saturday.

"A few days ago, the market's chief security officer called and informed me that a terrible flood from the Awada Area had carried the market after entering beneath its Sakamori (drainage) system and uprooting it, wreaking devastation there.

.The flood exhumed and destroyed telephone cables that were buried underground as well as large water borne pipes and roughly ten stores that were washed away with their contents.

"As of right now, the market is in a blackout, and traders are using energy generators because we haven't had a power supply for a month and a half since the rainy season began."

Because our market is located in the renowned Upper Iweka axis, hoodlums can easily enter the market through the damaged areas brought on by the erosion threat, he claimed.

He claimed that having a group of committed security personnel was the traders' only defense against theft.

The scale of the damage was beyond their ability to pay for, so he begged the governor of Anambra, Chukwuma Soludo, and other pertinent authorities for help.

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Check well, this also happened last year, and the year before last, and will happen next year. Each time they’d act like it’s a total surprise, then totally forget it as soon as the rainy season is over, till they are “surprised” again the next rainy season!