The popular Onyirada bridge along Aho-Ukwo road has collapsed, while valuables worth millions of naira have been swept away in a devastating flood disaster that swept through Owukpa, a suburb of Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State.
It was gathered that the ravaging flood also rendered no fewer than 700 people homeless in the area.It was gathered that most of the people affected by the disaster were residents of Udaburu-Ugbugbu in Ehaje, Ogwurute, Obenjira, Ejaa, Ugwu-Ogaji and Ola’Och Idu in Itabono areas of Owukpa.
In Ehaje, residents of villages such as Udaburu, Ugbugbu, Odobe, Anumachogwu, Aho, and others have been cut off from the main Ukwo Centre due to the collapse of the Onyirada bridge.
Our reporter observed that the bridge is part of the abandoned Aho-Ukwo Rural Areas Mobility Project, RAMP, that was awarded at N120m under the President Goodluck Jonathan’s adminstration.
The Home Branch Chairman of Udaburu Development Association, Mr. Emmanuel Odoh, lamented that the collapsed bridge has totally cut them off from the heart of the community.
