Ogun asks residents of 24 flood-prone communities to relocate

Ogun State government on Tuesday directed residents of flood-prone and wetland areas across 24 communities to relocate temporarily as part of moves to avert flood disaster.

Also, farmers around wetland and riverbanks in the communities spread across ten local government areas of the state, were asked to complete their harvesting before September.

The government said there would be high intensity of rainfall in September, resulting in fluvial flood, hence, the alert on the farmers to avert loss of their livestock and crops to flooding.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Ola Oresanya, said this on Tuesday during an inter-ministerial briefing held at the Olusegun Osoba Press Centre in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

According to him, there is need for the people to make personal preparations apart from the government’s efforts in order to avert the flood disaster that has been predicted to take place in the state between July and September 2021.

Oresanya explained that the Nigerian Hydrological Service Agency in its metrological report predicted that the state would experience serious flooding this year.