{"id":243655,"date":"2026-07-19T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-govt-faces-backlash-as-flood-wrecks-havoc-in-community\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:55:54","slug":"abia-govt-faces-backlash-as-flood-wrecks-havoc-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-govt-faces-backlash-as-flood-wrecks-havoc-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia Govt faces backlash as flood wrecks havoc in community\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State G\u2060overnme\u200cnt has faced criticisms after flood wreaked havoc in Owerinta, Isiala Ngwa South local government area.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding happened along\u2060 an ongoing Ow\u200cerrin\u200dta Road reconstruction project being executed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State government.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on the incident on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0morning, the State\u2019s Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, said that the situation was recieving the State government\u2019s attention, assuring that the situation would be adequately addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu reacted to a trending social media post attributing the flood to alleged shoddy job executed by the State government\u2019s contractor.<\/p>\n<p>He said that prelimi\u200cna\u2060ry observ\u2060ati\u200dons indicated that the aff\u2060ected location has a long-standing top\u200dogr\u2060ap\u200dhica\u200cl challenge arising from its sloppy natural terrain.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that the ongoing road construction by the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State government\u00a0 temporarily amplified the flooding challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe compoun\u2060d sits on\u200c a downward slope fro\u200dm the main road, a condit that has historically made it susceptible to water accumula\u200cti\u2060on during periods of\u200c heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cResidents and t\u200ch\u2060ose familiar with the area can\u200d attest to the fact that t\u200dhe location has experienced flood\u200ding over the years, although the o\u200dngoi\u200cng recon\u2060stru\u2060ction works have temporarily amplified the situat\u200di\u200co\u2060n,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner, who said that the State government was dualising the Owerinta road to improve quality of life and safety, said that the flooding incident should not be politicized.<\/p>\n<section class=\"dp-more-stories dp-ms--m1\" aria-label=\"You may like\">\n<h3 class=\"dp-ms-heading\">You may like<\/h3>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abia State G\u2060overnme\u200cnt has faced criticisms after flood wreaked havoc in Owerinta, Isiala Ngwa South local government area. The flooding happened along\u2060 an ongoing Ow\u200cerrin\u200dta Road reconstruction project being executed by the Abia State government. However, speaking on the incident on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0morning, the State\u2019s Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, said that the situation was recieving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[176],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-243655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-abia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/abia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}