The Federal Government has
directed residents of flood prone areas to quickly evacuate to safer places to
avoid impending danger.
This is just as environmental
experts have predicted intense flooding across the country this year.
The Nigerian Meteorological
Agency (NIMET) and Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), in their
rainfall prediction and flood outlook for 2017, had listed local council areas
in almost all the states of the federation as likely to be affected by flooding.
Director General of National
Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Garba Abari, who gave the advice, while speaking
with newsmen, said residents of the states and councils listed should take it
seriously by taking measures to move out of the areas in the first instance to
safeguard assets and property in and around the area.
Abari also urged Nigerians to,
“adopt simple environmental safeguards, including opening of waterways and
stopping the dumping of refuse in gutters, among others.”
He further warned Nigerians to,
“stop building houses along designated water channels to avoid blockage that
could cause flooding and brace up to their responsibility of clearing drainages
and possibly invoke environmental laws towards flood mitigation in the
country.”
The Minister of Water Resources,
Suleiman Adamu, had said that summary of the Nigeria Hydrological Services
Agency, showed that approximately 30 states and over 100 local government areas
were categorised as high flood risk areas and therefore should expect flooding.
He said, “In the coastal areas,
including Lagos, Port Harcourt and Calabar, possible coastal flooding in these
places were mentioned in the NlHSA’s flood outlook.”
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