Flood: FCTA vows to remove more structures on waterways

As part of measures to mitigate the devastating effect of the flood disaster being experienced in Abuja, Chinyeaka Ohaa, Permanent Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has vowed that the Administration will continue to remove illegal structures built on waterways that complicate flood risk in the Territory.

Ohaa who said this at the Emergency Stakeholders Forum on flood mitigation and response Coordination organised by FCT Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, in Abuja revealed that so far 150 of such structures have been removed in some parts of Abuja.

He commended FEMA for its aggressive flood awareness campaign across the Six Area Councils and assured the stakeholders that

the Administration will consider closely resolutions reached at the forum with the view to implementing them in line with the extant government policies.

“It is my expectations that your deliberations will not only come up with watertight preventive and response strategies against the impending flood but also proffer durable solutions to the issue of recurrent flood in the Federal Capital Territory”, Ohaa said.

Abas Idriss, FEMA Director-general pointed out that information available form the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, from its daily monitoring of flood water level of River Niger at Lokoja revealed that water level since 8th July 2019 has exceeded the level recorded in 2012 and 2018 after a comparative analysis of same period.