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The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, on Sunday, said the severe flood that submerged about 300 buildings in several communities in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital was due to heavy downpour in the affected locations.
The Director-General, NIHSA, Clement Nze, explained in an email he sent to our correspondent that the flood reportedly submerged business centres, vehicles, worship centres and schools. “However, report from the NIHSA Yola Office stated that the poor or lack of drainage systems, buildings erected within the flood paths, etc., aggravated the flood, and not the release of any water from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon.”
He said under normal circumstances, it was usually around the third week of September that the Lagdo Dam reservoir approached an elevation of 213m.“Spillage of water can only take place once the reservoir level approaches 216m. Therefore, no release of water from Lagdo Dam ever took place,” he said.
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