The National Assembly has given its commitment to tackling the perennial flooding across the country to forestall further loss of lives and property.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment and Ecology, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saaraki, gave this assurance to the people of Kwara State on Saturday when he inspected an erosion site at Ogo-Oluwa-Feruke Bello Street, Tanke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Saraki said the National Assembly is poised to collaborate with relevant agencies to arrest imminent danger posed by erosion to various community in the country.

"The Federal Government," Saraki said, "is aware of the dangers erosion poses to human and capital development and would do everything to address the menace."

The senator, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said the implementation of remedial and lasting solutions to erosion challenges in the country has been factored into the 2012 fiscal budget signed by President Goodluck Jonathan recently.

The federal lawmaker, who expressed concern over the extent of the erosion at Tanke, assured the community that the federal, state and local governments will be encouraged to collaborate to halt the damage before the end of this year. He also promised that all erosion-prone sites in Kwara State would be given utmost attention in order to prevent any form of disaster in the state.

Saraki, who is the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, called on federal, state and local government to work together in solving erosion problems in the country.

A representative of the Ogo-Oluwa community, Prof. Isaiah Awogun, while conducting Saraki round the erosion-ravaged site, said all the remedial efforts made by the people such as drainages, have been washed away during the rainy season.

Awogun said the erosion site has become a criminals’ haven as they rob residents of their belongings, especially at night.

He appealed to the state and federal governments to urgently halt the threat posed by erosion to the community so that their houses would not be washed away.