Flooding - Senate Urges Water Ministry to Rehabilitate Dams, Dredge Waterways

Date: 2018-10-12

The Senate has called on the Ministry of Water Resources to rehabilitate Nigerian dams and dredge waterways to be able to take in flood waters.

The call was sequel to a motion on the recent flooding across the country, sponsored by Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South) and 107 other senators.

The number of senators who sponsored the motion essentially means it was sponsored by all the lawmakers except one as there are 109 senators.

This is one motion which was anticipated as Nigerians who have been affected by the flooding have called on the authorities to come to their aid.

The lawmakers also resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee comprising chairpersons and vice chairpersons of the Senate committees on Ecology and water resources to come up with a lasting solution to the issue of flooding.

Leading the debate, Mr Gaya noted that the recent floods across the country have claimed hundreds of lives and damaged thousands of homes.

Over the past few months, floods have ravaged many communities. Some of the affected states include Kogi, Niger, Anambra, Delta and Taraba.

Others are Kebbi, Edo, Rivers, Benue, Bayelsa and Kwara states.

Flooding in communities in these states prompted the National Emergency Management Agency to declare National Disaster in the states.

Mr Gaya stated that in the last three decades, the impacts of flooding have increasingly assumed significant to threatening proportions, resulting in loss of lives and properties.

"Apart from houses (built with mud brick, traditional building materials of the area and those not built with modern flood resistant structure) that collapse by flooding, schools, buildings and bridges sometimes collapse as well. Market places and farmlands are submerged for weeks and sometimes are washed away;

"These flood disasters have worsened the crises of internally displaced persons. These perennial floods have over the years caused widespread and irreparable damage to the various ecosystems along the impacted areas, with some flora and fauna lost forever, and also introduced several strange vegetation that not only choke native flora, but are usually difficult to control," he said.

The lawmakers took turns to contribute to the motion.

The Senate then urged the "National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to send relief materials to the affected victims in Kano and other states of the federation." It also commended "NEMA and other relevant agencies, organisations and individuals whose efforts in creating awareness has led to reduction in casualty level."

It also urged the federal government, in collaboration with the Cameroonian government, to convene a Stakeholders meeting to ex-ray the recurring situation with the view to proffering a lasting solution to flood disasters.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Balogin Alanamu     Idofin     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Amusement Park     Saliu Alamoyo     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     A.O. Belgore     Undergraduate Bursary     ASMAU PLAZA     Amasa     Mike Omotosho     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Ita-Nmo Market     Bola Olukoju     Adijat Adebiyi     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Yaman     Ilorin West     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Elese Of Igbaja     Adebara     Firdaos Amasa     Hassanat Bello     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Flights To Ilorin     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Okin Biscuit     Donatus Ejidike     Gbenga Adebayo     Rapheal Ashaolu     Adanla-Irese     Danhawa     Abdulkadir Orire     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Read With Me     Rotimi Atere     Bolaji Nagode     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Olaitan Buraimoh     Mansur Alfanla     Yeketi     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Onikijipa     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Oko Erin     Wale Oladepo     Adamu Atta     Yakubu Danladi     Ibrahim Labaika     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Rachael Obisesan     Lanwa     Yaru     Kale Bayero     Salman Jawondo     Oba Abdulraheem     Presidential Election     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Magaji Are     REO CAKES     Mazars Consulting     SSA Youth     Sherif Shagaya     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     NSCIA     Maryam Nurudeen     Yusuf Mubarak     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     UITH     Simeon Ajibola     Ebola    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Christopher Odetunde     Durosinlohun Kawu     National Information Technology Development Agency     George Innih     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Orisun Igbomina     Age AbdulKareem     Ubandawaki     Mike Omotosho     Kuliyan Geri     Abubakar Abdulraheem     BECE     Olabanji Orilonishe     Voices Of Tomorrow     Baboko Primary School     Suleiman Ajadi     Donatus Ejidike     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Kaiama     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Saka Abimbola Isau     IFK     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Post Utme     Nurudeen Mohammed     Quareeb     Ilorin South     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Oke-Kura     Radio SBS     Iyiola Oyedepo     Oko Erin     Razak Atunwa     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Baakini     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Muhammadu Buhari     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Sa\'adu Salahu     Plat Technologies Limited     Iqra Books     FOMWAN     RTEAN     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Agboola Abdulraheem     Akorede     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Albert Ogunsola     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Olugbense     Tanke     Esinrogunjo     Abdulraheem Olesin     Vasolar Consortium     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Woro     Ibrahim Labaika     Gbemisola Saraki     Alikinla     Awodun     Usman Yunusa     Gbugbu     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Yetunde Balogun     Abubakar Ndakene     Baruten     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Oba Of Jebba     Mohammed Lawal     Harafat E. Mukadam     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Hauwa Nuru     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave