Communities in Adamawa State’s Madagali Local Government Areas were also affected by the severe flood that this year’s rainy season brought to several areas of the state.
According to Emmanuel Tsamdu, an elder statesman of the region, the Wurogayandi Bridge is on the edge of collapsing and if it does, many towns will be devastated and many sparse agricultural production areas will be shut down.
The only bridge connecting the entire Madagali Local Government and Borno state is inaccessible, which has a major scourging effect on the residents of Shuwa, Gulak, and other communities that share borders with Borno state.
If the bridge and drainages connecting the villages are not maintained, the risk-prone areas of Shuwa Gari, Angwan Sarki, Lumadu Sama, Lumadu Kasa, Duhu Gari, Kwambula Wurogayandi, Kopa, and those in Pallam Road, Mayowandu, and many others may experience the catastrophic consequences of commercial activity as a threatening flood is on its move.
Hon. Emmanuel Tsamdu, a stakeholder and a former lawmaker who served as the representative for the Madagali Constituency in the Adamawa State Assembly made the heartbreaking appeal that the region is experiencing a recurring annual flood disaster.
He said that Pallam, his hometown, is off limits because the bridge has fallen and there is no way to rebuild it because everyone’s cries appear to go unheard.
However, because assistance is not coming from the desired source of thinking, Tsamdu urged Sons and Daughters of concerned minds, as well as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), to band together to save the situation.
In his three years after taking office again, the governor, according to Tsamdu, has done nothing for the residents of Madagali other than building a road to his home and his uncle’s home.
Gulak resident Mamza Idi said it is upsetting and unfortunate that the current administration is not attending to the people’s dire needs.
He asserts that handling this kind of issue is solely the government’s job in order to make the region a revenue-producing zone due to the large annual production of farming inputs.
He accused the governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, of not taking initiative, particularly in regard to his neighbourhood and many other sections of the state.
” It might surprise you this is the governor’s local government, is more of his home town, a place he supposes to pride himself that he has achieved something good. But what are we seeing? Negligence and less attention are what we get.
Idi recalled how the entire Madagali local government had the same issue the previous year and had complained to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri about it, but nothing concrete had been done.
He claimed that four bridges are in bad shape and that the government of Adamawa State is not doing much to improve the situation.
You may also remember that in August 2020, a collapsed bridge connecting Borno state which was destroyed by Flood choked down economic activity; the Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri assured indigenes of reconstructing the bridge.
However, it has come to our attention through this means that a few days ago, Governor Ahmadu organised state agencies to embark on a rescue expedition to fix the bridges.
The people are given renewed hope that they would be able to access their farms and that their socioeconomic life will return.
