Flood: Bayelsa residents decry govt inability to clear canals, drainages

Victims of last year’s flood in Bayelsa State and other residents of the state have called on the state government to promptly clear the drainages and canals around Yenagoa, the state capital to avert the devastating effects of the anticipated flood this year

 The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) had predicted that the heavy rainfall that will reach its peak between July and September, 2024 will cause flooding higher than last year’s own.

 Disturbed by the prediction and suffering of last year’s flood, some residents around the cemetery road, Azikoro village in Yenagoa, told members of the Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) who went round to see the level of government’s preparedness ahead of the anticipated flood that they needed the relevant government agencies to clean up the canals that empty water into the area from the cemetery area of the state.

 Bayelsans State government had shortly after last year’s flood set up the Flood and Erosion Control Committee to find a solution to perennial flooding in the state.

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 A member of the committee, who confided in Daily Trust, disclosed that the state government has not mobilized the committee to start work.