As furious floods buffet the food basket | TheCable

afternoon. You glide past the approach bridge, and glimpse to your left, the “Makurdi Golf Course,” hitherto seated by the scenic lips of the river. It is soaked, sadly now, swamped and submerged by the overabundance of liquid blessings. Ahead of you is the attention-commanding artwork of a huge basket bearing a variety of farm produce, an attestation to the pride of place of Benue state as the epicentre of food production in the country.

Ortom was dressed in white and green blazers and trousers, in the spirit of independence. The kind of impromptu tour he had just elected to undertake would have been better suited to jeans trousers and rain boots. The imperative for him to appraise the situation himself as the pragmatist that he is, however, had no time for sartorial correctness. Ortom toured Wadata Market, Rice Mill, Awe Street , the designated park and headquarters of Benue Links transport company, all the way to Kucha Utebe.

Ortom alluded to the earlier pledge of the federal government to dredge River Benue, a promise which remains unkept to date. Former transportation minister under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi while defending his ministry’s budget before the national parliament in 2017, said matter-of-factly that the river will be dredged.

Also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers , Atume noted: “Water moves with intense force and serious velocity. It is very heavy, very powerful. It must be allowed to flow or it will create its own outlets”. According to him, the government must muster the political will to do the right thing in addressing the situation, because it will have to take tough decisions in some cases.

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