Flood looms as Kainji, Jebba, Shiroro, Zungeru Dams get set to discharge excess water

By Wole Mosadomi

Minna-The 4 hydro electrical dams, Shiroro, Jebba, Kainji and Zungeru located successful Niger State, person given  notification towards releasing excess h2o from their dams immoderate infinitesimal from now.

The notification which was made disposable to Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, stated that the 4 dams were acceptable to discharge excess water.

In its reaction,  the State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, has alerted communities successful the riverine areas successful the state  to relocate upstream arsenic a effect of the directive from the 4 Dams to debar the impending flood.

The bureau successful a connection successful Minna, yesterday, said the flooding that would travel the discharge of h2o from these dams would beryllium catastrophic.

The Director General of NSEMA, Alhaji Abdullahi Arah successful the connection besides said the Nigerian Hydrological Services has subsequently advised that  communities on Rivers Niger and Kaduna should relocate for aforesaid reason.

The dams are releasing thousands of gallons of h2o per infinitesimal that could pb to the overflow of these Rivers and so, we are advising our communities to limit  activities astir River banks during this highest raining season  to avoid  flooding.“

“Similarly, radical surviving astatine riverine areas should relocate to safer grounds already identified,” helium added.

Arah further said: “NiMeT’s 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.

“The authorities 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 improvement has 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 springiness the fig of lives mislaid successful the latest disasters.

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