NEWMAP To Rescue AAU From Gully Erosion, Visits The Site

By ABIODUN JIMOH
For coming to the rescue of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma from a devastating gully, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ignatius c Onimawo has commended the Management of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) for its quick response.
The Vice-Chancellor made this recommendation when he received members of Edo NEWMAP delegation who were in the university campus as part of their Implementation Mission to Edo Central Senatorial District.
Prof. Onimawo remarked that gully erosion was a major threat to lives and infrastructure on campus, especially buildings that were on the waterways.
He hereby expressed gratitude to his predecessor, the late Prof. Mrs. Cordelia Agbebaku, who drew the attention of the state government to the problem of gully on campus and called for necessary assistance.
Similarly, Prof. Onimawo thanked Governor Godwin Obaseki led government for prompt response to their distress call, culminating in the intervention by NEWMAP and expressed confidence that the remedial work would bring to an end the challenge of gully erosion in the school.
Furthermore, he used the occasion to highlight the ongoing transformation in the university in the past few years, including the construction of four new faculty buildings and the ultra-modern administrative building being constructed by the state government.
He informed his visitors of the huge success recorded in the computer-based examinations and the electronic voting system introduced for the conduct of SUG elections.
Speaking earlier, the leader of the Edo NEWMAP delegation and State Project Coordinator, Dr. Tom Obaseki informed the Vice-Chancellor and other principal officers of the university that following the official report of the gully by the former VC, the process of engineering designs and other technical details had been completed and contract awarded for the civil works.
Dr. Obaseki further informed that construction work would commence in the month of February 2020 and solicited for the support of the institution in ensuring a hitch-free intervention.
He assured them that the contractors would deliver a quality job that would bring to an end the untold hardship and anxiety among staff and students occasioned by flood and gully erosion.
The NEWMAP delegation and the university officials later inspected the gully site where the Edo NEWMAP Project Engineer, Edwin Asemota-Ero explained the scope of work.