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The impact of the 2012 flood disaster which ravaged communities in Nigeria lingers. In Anambra State where 53 communities were affected, victims continue to relive the sad experience.
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Sunday Vanguard visited hard-hit communities such as Abilibaose, Atani in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state and found that life had changed for the worse for the people.
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Hundreds of those rendered homeless continued to battle strange illnesses. Dozens of women who lost their pregnancies were yet to recover. Malaria, bites from snakes and insects were palpable.
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Okechukwu Emodi was in dire straits. A victim of the flood that ravaged the area, last year, the business man from Abilibaose Atani, was bedridden, no thanks to a strange sickness that had taken over his life. Unable to walk and with his condition deteriorating by the day, a wheel barrow was his only means of moving around.
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Okechukwu's ailment defied treatment. Pushed to the limit, Okechukwu turned to assistance from a herbal practitioner. He swore that since he commenced treatment from the herbal doctor, there had been remarkable improvement.
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His story was one of sorrow and anguish. He relived the story with regret. "I lost everything I have laboured for all my life in the same flood that has kept me like this.