Flood: Delta gov duties residents in low-land riverine areas to relocate

The Delta State Authorities, on Wednesday, issued a contemporary warning to residents in low-land and flood-prone areas to relocate to increased planes in view of the approaching flood, on the heels of the discharge of water from Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam into the Rivers Niger and Benue.

This was contained in a press release signed by Festus Ahon, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, and made accessible to journalists in Warri.

In response to the assertion, the state authorities was involved concerning the lives and property of residents dwelling in flood-prone areas within the face of earlier warnings from the Nigerian Hydrological Companies Company.

It famous that the governor has permitted the organising of a 14-man Flood Catastrophe Administration Committee headed by the Secretary to the State Authorities, Dr. Kingsley Emu, to mitigate the challenges anticipated by the approaching flood.

The committee, the assertion defined, is saddled with the accountability of finishing up aggressive sensitisation of residents on the approaching flood and to suggest applicable measures for the prevention and administration of flooding, addressing the displacement of individuals and suggesting methods for the supply of reduction supplies to victims.

The assertion partly learn, “The Delta State Authorities has been knowledgeable that the authorities of Lagdo Dam in Cameroon can be releasing modulated quantities of water into the River Benue and River Niger because of flooding brought on by torrential rainfall.

“The Delta State Authorities will present help to these displaced from their houses by the rising water degree occasioned by the overflow of the River Benue and River Niger.

“Already His Excellency, Sheriff Oborevwori, has permitted the organising of Flood Catastrophe Administration Committee to make sure that individuals displaced from their houses on account of the approaching flood are adequately catered for at numerous Internally Displaced Individuals camps nearest to them.”

The assertion added, “We’re subsequently calling on affected residents to name the next numbers- 08064137841 and 08037200696 -for authorities intervention within the case of flooding.”