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“River flooding as well as coastal flooding is expected to come into place as the nation approaches the peak of the rainy season,” he said while giving the 2019 Annual Flood Outlook in Abuja on August 7. However, some state governments are only asking the people living in flood-prone areas to vacate such communities.
According to a resident of Kotangora Estate, in Barnawa area of the state, Mr Saidu Yusuf, there is no preparation to relocate the people living close to the river. Olushola said, “We are aware of the flood alerts but the government has not really done well in terms of sensitisation. We have resolved that we shall accommodate our neighbours living close to the river if there is flooding.
An official of the Kaduna State Environmental Protection Agency, who pleaded anonymity, told The PUNCH that there was no way the government could dredge the river before September.The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Ibrahim Husseini, had alerted residents close to the Kaduna River to an imminent flood and directed them to vacate the area.In Cross River State, residents have even been suffering from the effect of flood when the predicted September flooding has not even started.
However, the acting Director-General of SEMA, Princewill Anyim, said “structural and non structural steps” were being taken to prevent flooding in the wake of the warning by NIHSA.However, residents of Nkpolu community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have started fleeing their homes over fear of being caught in the predicted impending flooding by NIHSA.
When contacted to speak on the efforts being made by the state government to mitigate the effect of the predicted flooding, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Paulinus Nsirim, said the government had scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to discuss strategies it would employ to tackle the impending flood crisis.
Gbileka maintained that his office had put every necessary mechanism in place to carry out demolition of such buildings and clear the drains for free passage of water at various flood-prone areas particularly around Gboko Road, North Bank area and Wadata axis.
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