The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter
Obi, has called on the federal government to declare state of emergency on all
states recently affected by flood.
Obi made the call on Wednesday in Taraba State where he went
to sympathize with the victims of the flood disaster.
Obi, who visited the various locations affected by the
disaster in Ibi Local Government Council of the state, was also observed to
have beckoned at the government to adopt the global best practice that would
help in desilting all its waters to avert a recurrence of floods.
Piqued by the havoc wreaked by floods across the nation, he
said, “We are calling on the government to come with interventions, declare all
the affected states a disaster area.”
Believing that it is not too late for the government to arrest
the situation, he argued that “what the federal government has to do to stop
this is to ensure that the waters are desilted.”
The candidate, who was of the view that water bodies or
rivers ought to contribute to the wellbeing of the people, felt dejected that
the rivers have become sources of calamities, the situation which believed can
be reversed.
He admonished other presidential candidates to as a matter
of urgency suspend their campaigns by assisting in raising awareness regarding
the predicaments of floods victims across the country.
Several communities in Ibi, Lau and Karim-Lamido local
government councils of the state, it would be recalled were recently submerged
by floods following heavy downpours that lasted several hours in the
aforementioned councils.
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