Flood Ravages 20 Niger Local Governments

Niger State Emergency  Management Agency (NSEMA) has issued reddish alert implicit the discharge of excess h2o from the 4 Hydro Power Dams successful the authorities arsenic flood ravages 20 LGAs.

The manager wide of NSEMA Abdullahi Baba Arah said yesterday that 20 section authorities areas person already been devastated by floods, and galore person been rendered homeless.

He said those on the River banks should relocate to uplands and designated areas to debar immoderate fatality.

Regarding the fatalities from the floods successful Niger authorities this year, the NSEMA Director General disclosed that 250 lives person been mislaid successful assorted floods successful 4 of the 20 flood-ravaged section authorities areas.

He said the authorities mislaid 29 lives successful the Borgu flood, 13 successful the Shiroro flood, 2 successful the Chanchaga flood, and 206 successful the Mokwa flood disaster.

“The Agency’s informing is coming arsenic a effect of discharge of  h2o from Kainji, Shiroro, Zungeru and Jeba hydro Dams located successful Niger State” helium explained portion adding that the dams were releasing thousands of gallons of h2o per infinitesimal that could pb to the overflow of these rivers.

Consequently “the State government  hereby advise  our communities to limit  activities astir stream banks during this highest rainy season  to debar being flooded. People surviving astatine riverine areas should relocate to safer grounds already identified”.

The  manager wide said the authorities was already experiencing antagonistic interaction of the flooding with  houses, workplace lands,bridges and  linked roads washed distant successful immoderate areas  located astatine up and down watercourse of the 4 dams .

He said these  has rendered galore stateless and has affected the socio-economic activities of the communities.

He listed  the section government  areas to include; Lavun, Magama, Rafi,Kontagora,Gbako,Mokwa,Lapai, Katcha, Agaie, Suleja, Shiroro, Mashegu, Agwara, Bida, Edati, Munya, Bosso, Chanchaga, Paikoro and Wushishi.