The popular Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, the Anambra capital city has dived into a massive gully erosion which will turn dangerous if no drastic and urgent control measures are taken to salvage it before the rainy season sets in.
Already, parts of the facility, including the perimeter fence and changing room for an Olympic size swimming pool have collapsed into the huge gully while the facility itself which has been in disuse since March 2020, is under immense threat.
The threat has also affected the Anambra State High Court Premises and some public buildings in the environs. The gully is already cutting off the road between Ekwueme Square and the State High Court, thereby exposing the temple of justice to possible imminent collapse. 
Ekwueme erosion site is a major ecological danger site which had in the past posed a serious threat to the Federal High Court Complex, Judges’ Quarters, Federation Secretariat and the moribund Anambra Government House which is now under construction.
The first intervention effort was done in 2019 when the then Nigeria Erosion Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) implemented Gully Rapid Action and Slope Stabilisation (GRASS) to control damage to houses and critical infrastructure in the area.Though the GRASS intervention was able to stabilised the Federal High Court Complex, Federal Secretariat building and the Government House, it did not solve the entire problem but shifted it as has been manifested in the new challenge.
The Commissioner said control works would commence at the sight soon to avert possible destruction of strategic state assets in the neighborhood.
