The protest, as gathered by TribuneOnline on Thursday in Warri, is to draw the attention of the world to the untold hardship and neglect folks, whose communities have been literally submerged by the flood are going through.
Communities so badly affected, as gathered, include Eseimogbene, Ekametagbene, Oyangbene, Akparemogbene, Egolegbene, Ayakoromo, Bubougbene, Newtown, Yayorogbene, Gbekebor, Obotebe, Ekorogbene and Okrika.
Others are Ebeingbene, Ogboingbene, Ogodobiri, Okoloba, Akugbene, Enekorogha, Edegbene, Opurutiegbene, Kalafuogbene, Ebeberegbene, Ekogbene, etc all in Burutu and Bomadi local government areas of Delta State.
TribuneOnline, it will be recalled, had earlier reported that for about three weeks now, academic activities at Ayakoromo Grammar School and the two other primary schools in the community had been shut down academic as pupils can no longer access the flooded schools and access roads.
It was reliably gathered that the affected residents have lost their daily means of livelihood, can hardly afford a meal or medication while some able-bodied among them now take shelter in boats and top of trees.
Confirming the devastation wreaked by the seasonal flood, an indigene of the area, Alaowei Cleric, said the banks of Ramos and Forcados Rivers and their estuaries in the state are currently over flooded.
According to the rights activist, the affected communities in the area have been submerged by the persistent raging flood while inhabitants have built makeshift houses in their canoes to lay their heads.
Most of the houses, he further confirmed, have been submerged by flood even to window level.
Another affected resident of Ayakoromo told TribuneOnline on phone that except an urgent step is taken to reach victims with victuals and the other relief materials, diseases and deaths were imminent.
But while it may be a mirage waiting for the slow intervention of the state government and other stakeholders, youths in the area have already resolved to embark on a protest against the Delta State government and representatives of Burutu in the state House of Assembly.
Hinting on the proposed protest, coordinator of Ayakoromo Activists Forum/Concerned Civil Society Groups, Comrade Austin Ozobo, in a statement on Thursday, said representatives of the area have distanced themselves from the plights of the people by not responding to all entreaties.
He gave their names as Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro, the Commissioner of Youths, Kenneth Daubry, member representing Burutu Constituency ll and member representing Burutu Constituency I in the Delta State House Assembly, Daniel Yingi, among others.
“We have made frantic efforts to drag the attention of the government, other representatives and relevant government agencies to timely provide relief efforts, but our call is being treated with disdain and levity,” Ozobo disclosed.
Comrade Ozobo and Cleric, who’s the national president of the Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Curruption Crusade (FOHURAC), called on Delta State, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Red Cross Society and all other stakeholders to come to the aid of the communities to avert a brooding humanitarian crisis.
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