calling the attention of both the Federal and State Governments to come to their aid as their community is being threatened by erosion that is gradually pushing them to the brink of extinction.
Also, the community primary school that served as a ground where children from within and outside the community acquire basic education had also been abandoned because essential parts of the facility, including Headmaster’s Quarter, football field and several classrooms have been washed into the Ikoli River by the erosion.
In an interview with DAILY POST, the Paramount Ruler of the community, HRH Monday Igodo, said, ‘’right now, our primary school is seriously affected. We have lost the Corpers Lodge to erosion. The river banks are eroding, and eroding very fast. The Corpers lodge that was very far from the bank of the river is now affected, forcing us to abandon it.
“This goes to explain the level of abandonment we suffer in the hands of government. As a community, we have tried our best to help ourselves by repairing the transformer, but it has failed to work. You know that anywhere there are is light, businesses thrives. And where businesses thrives, there is peace.
Recounting her experience of the disaster, the women leader of Obogoro community, Chief Patience Amagbopere said, ‘’When I was newly married into this community, walking from the waterside to the school house was a long distance. But now you can see everything here, even the goal post is being shifted again and again towards the school, as other parts of the facility have gone into the river.