The National Emergency Management Agency has stated that 254 communities in 14 local government areas in Cross River State are flood-prone.
The Director General of NEMA, Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Mohammed , disclosed this in Calabar on Thursday at a flood sensitisation programme for residents in Calabar Municipality and Calabar South LGAs.
According to Mohammed, who was represented by the South-South Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr Walson Brandon, residents must clear their gutters and desist from dumping refuse inside the drainage to avert flooding. “NEMA is carrying out this sensitisation of vulnerable flood communities in Cross River following the release of the 2020 Annual Flood Outlook by NIMET.
“The forecast captured 14 local government areas in Cross River to be affected and this will spread across 254 communities in the state,” he said. The Director General of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Princewill Ayim, said the agency had put in place sensitisation committees across the affected local government areas and warned residents against dumping their refuse along the waterways to avoid flooding.All rights reserved.
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