“Our problem is not just about relocating to camps and receiving food and mattresses. Every flood leaves us poorer. We relocate our families, rebuild our homes yearly, and the roads collapse without repair.”
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However, he said the challenges faced by people in flood-prone areas went beyond temporary relief and setting up Internally Displaced Persons camps. He appealed to the federal government to consider building a dam as a long-term measure to control floodwaters, rather than relying on emergency responses to flooding.“Many houses that used to be on the bank of River Niger in Akiliozizor and other Ogbaru communities have been washed away. Most affected residents are yet to be properly resettled. Some now live in shanties while others squat with relatives because acquiring new land is expensive,” he said.
“We thought that the flood would not come this year because the usual period for flooding has passed,” Vanguard newspaper quoted a resident of the area, Chris Okwuosa, as saying last year during the disaster. “By now, the flood should have been receding, but it is coming late.”
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