{"id":1119,"date":"2012-07-26T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-07-26T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:28:01","slug":"flooding-in-irete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in Irete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/item.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"item\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/item.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/item.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/item-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>The scope and frequency of flooding in Irete is beyond what the tenants alone can tackle.\u00a0 About 99.5 of the landlords are in (different) to the sufferings of their tenants insisting that they are at liberty to relocate to other areas if they find things abnormally difficult.<\/p>\n<p>One of the worst affected spots is the formerCateringSchoolclose to Orogwe.\u00a0 This long stretch of feeder road is at times not fordable by pedestrians because of the knee &#8211; level flood water.<\/p>\n<p>It comes all the way from Afor \u2013 Irete about two or three kilometres away washing into the low areas on whichCateringSchoolis located.\u00a0 As a result of the flood water which stagnates for months, people now dread visiting their relations or friends who reside at theCateringSchoolarea.\u00a0 Tenants and few landlords have been sacrificing money and labour to make the road passable yet it has continued to deteriorate.\u00a0 The landlords are the architects of the problem.\u00a0 With no master plan for new layouts, they erected buildings anywhere and anyhow blocking the flood water channels.\u00a0 For now poor grading by a road contractor has worsened the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Is there nothing the Owerri West Local Government can do to check the flood water?\u00a0 Is the Council handicapped in enforcing sanity in real estate development?\u00a0 Is it no longer covered by the statutory functions of Owerri Capital Development Authority, OCDA?<\/p>\n<p>What is actually wrong?<\/p>\n<p>John Okochi<\/p>\n<p>Irete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, The scope and frequency of flooding in Irete is beyond what the tenants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=9\" rel=\"category\">Editorial<\/a>","tag_info":"Editorial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}