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By Wole Mosadomi, MINNA
The 4 hydro-electric dams – Shiroro, Jebba, Kainji and Zungeru – located successful Niger authorities person given notification towards releasing excess h2o immoderate moment.
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The notification was made disposable to Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA.
In a swift reaction, NSEMA alerted communities successful the riverine areas successful the authorities to relocate upstream to debar the impending flood.
The Agency, successful a connection made disposable to journalists successful Minna Thursday, said the flooding that would travel the discharge of h2o from these dams would beryllium catastrophic.
The Director General of NSEMA, Alhaji Abdullahi Baba Arah, who signed the connection besides said the Nigerian Hydrological Services has subsequently advised that Communities on Rivers Niger and Kaduna should relocate for aforesaid crushed .
“The Dams are releasing thousands of gallons of h2o per infinitesimal that could pb to the overflow of these Rivers and truthful we are advising our communities to
limit activities astir River banks during this highest raining season to avoid flooding.
“Similarly, People surviving astatine riverine areas should relocate to safer grounds already identified” helium declared.
Arah said that “NiMeTs latest prediction besides indicated that the extremity of raining season volition beryllium accompanied by convulsive windstorm and that arsenic a result, radical should debar lasting nether trees during rainfall and besides enactment distant from substandard structures.
According to him,”the State is already experiencing antagonistic impacts of the flooding with houses, workplace lands, bridges and link- roads washed distant successful immoderate section authorities areas located up and down streams of the 4 Dams and the development had rendered galore stateless and besides affected the socio-economic activities of the communities.
Some of the affected section authorities areas are Lavun, Magama, Rafi, Kontagora, Gbako,Mokwa,Lapai, Katcha,Agaie Suleja,Shiroro.Mashegu, Agwara,Bida,Edati,Munya,Bosso, Chanchaga, Paikoro and wushishi adding that nonaccomplishment of lives had been recorded successful these areas.
However, helium did not notation the fig of lives mislaid successful the latest disasters.
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