Poor compliance with national development plan worsens flooding – Expert

Executive Director, Development Space Academy Dr Okey Ikechukwu has said that failure to consistently adhere to the national development plan is responsible for the severe flooding across the country.

Ikechukwu stated this in an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily while commenting on flooding, adding that the national development plan rests on three major pillars.

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He said, “Now, what I am saying, a national development plan rests on three major pillars among others – comprehensive understanding of the physical and human geography of the place and then policies that address them holistically without one damaging other when implemented.

“My take, I may be mistaken, is that had it been we have consistently followed the national development plan, we are not likely to be where we are today.”

In his comment, the member Global Air force Climate Change Collaboration Group, Air Commodore Kenneth Iyamu, said flooding this year was caused among other things, by water that was supposed to fall for a year, falling in 48hrs.

“When you are talking about what is happening, you are talking about water and temperature, their interactions. Since 1990, the water in the atmosphere has increased from 5 to 20 per cent. The water that is supposed to fall for a year, we are now having it in 48hrs,” he said.