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The absorption of the Ogun Osun River Basin Development Authority (O-ORBDA) connected Wednesday allayed the fearfulness of imaginable flooding successful the Isheri—Olofin, Akute, and different communities downstream of the Oyan Dam owed to h2o merchandise from immoderate of its facilities.
With peculiar notation to the systemic merchandise of h2o from the Oyan Dam, O-ORBDA urged spot owners who are annually affected by flooding successful the Lagos axis of the Ogun River to courageously clasp the information astir the causes of flooding successful their communities alternatively than continually blaming activities astatine the Oyan Dam.
O-ORBDA’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO), Engr. ‘Deji Ashiru stated these during a media chat held successful his bureau astatine the Authority’s office located on the Alabata Road successful Odeda Local Government Area of Abeokuta, the Ogun authorities capital, arsenic portion of the measures to enlighten and amended the radical of Ogun State connected the looming flooding predicted by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet).
Apparently reacting to what helium termed a “misrepresentation of facts” astir however the Oya Dam task would payment Nigerians, Ashiru explained that the 42-year-old task has accounted for wherefore full communities successful its downstream person not been washed distant by h2o from rivers successful the neighbouring countries that poured contents into the Oyan River but were gated by the dam project.
However, Ashiru’s enlightenment came connected the heels of the periodic flood alert raised by the Ogun State government. The alert directed residents surviving successful riverbank and wetland areas of the state, specified arsenic Akute, Alagbole, Isheri, Magboro, Makogi, Orimerunmu, Iro, Kajola, and portion of Abeokuta metropolis, to hole for an overflow from the Ogun River “as a effect of controlled merchandise of h2o from Oyan Dam.”
On Monday, the Ogun State Commissioner for Environments, Ola Oresanya, said an “increase successful the h2o travel into the Oya dam would inevitably unit the merchandise of h2o from the dam.”
He disclosed that 42 different h2o tributaries that determination their contents into River Ogun downstream of the Oyan Dam origin the flooding, which annually displaces spot owners successful the communities astatine the riverbank and wetland areas of River Ogun, which see Akute, Alagbole, Isheri—Olofin, Magboro, Makogi, Orimerunmu, Iro, Kajola, and portion of the Abeokuta metropolis.
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