Coastal Erosion Sacks Inhabitants of Ogbogoro Community in Bayelsa State..

Alambo Datonye

TRACKING___Scores of Residents of Obogoro community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are now abandoning their homes no thanks to a ravaging coastal erosion in the area.

Some inhabitants of the community could be seen packing hurriedly from their houses as the rampaging natural phenomenon has encroached on buildings such as houses, churches, schools and other open lands.

The water from the Epie Creek is showing no mercy as it submerges everything within its way, eating deep into the community.

With many persons already displaced, the people have over the years cried out for help from the state and federal authorities without getting any positive response.

Abandoned to their fate, they are now leaving their homes in droves, seeking shelter and refuge outside Ogbogoro community.

A Journalist residing in the area expressed alarm that several houses including hers is now under threat of being consumed by the coastal erosion.

Monarchs and community leaders have also sent a save our souls messages to Government, stating that the NYSC lodge in the area has not been spared either from the devastating menace just as the community primary school, the Saint Paul Primary School has been washed into the Ekoli River.

Pramount ruler of the community, Chief Monday Igodo, said the people have also lost their source of livelihood with farmlands, crops all consumed, leaving the place in community strangulation, with survival of people now a major source of concern.

The absence of power supply has further compounded their woes with the community plunged into darkness for over two years.

A community member identified as Peter Goodnews said the people were undergoing hardship with families displaced and scattered.

Another local, Wisdom Winepre said he was traumatized because he had lost his home to erosion and currently at a loss where to put up.

They called on the Bayelsa State and Federal Government as well as relevant agencies to come to their rescue and save them from the threat posed by Coastal erosion in Ogbogoro community.