Topic: Flood sacks 1,000 in Rivers State  (Read 1442 times)

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Flood sacks 1,000 in Rivers State
« on: October 03, 2012, 05:16:20 PM »
No fewer than 1,000 persons had been displaced by flood in Rivers State. This is even, as members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, led by its Chairman and former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki were on fact-finding mission in the state. The state Commissioner for Environment, Dr Nyema E. Weli, who was in the Committee’s entourage, was shocked at the magnitude of the havoc caused by the flood, which according to him, was not brought to the notice of his Ministry. The flood was as a result of the over-flow of River Niger which affected Orashi River.

Badly hit by the disaster were indigenes of Mbiama, Akinima, and four communities that made up Joinkrama in Ahoada-West Local Government Area. Not spared by the natural disaster were people living in Ndoni in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state. Most of the houses affected by the flood had been vacated, while those who had nowhere to run to, were seen floating on the water, probably, hoping that help could come their way someday.

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