Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta state, has asked the federal government to build new dams and desilt major rivers in the country to check flooding.
Speaking on Thursday when he visited flood victims at some internally displaced persons camps in the state, the governor said such proactive measure by the federal government will curb flooding especially when neighbouring countries open their dams.
Okowa, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , also asked the government to make efforts at desilting River Niger and River Benue to deepen their depths and accommodate high volume of flood water.Okowa said five persons died in various communities in the state, adding that 11 camps have been established to take care of those displaced by the flood.
“I was informed by the SSG when the team briefed me yesterday that as a result of the flood, five deaths were recorded, although not inside the camps but across the state, and that is very unfortunate,” Okowa said.“We have 11 camps that are currently in place and some of them are in schools and some others are in high places in some locations where the schools have been overrun by the flood.
“Another issue is the dam in Cameroon. It always causes a major overflow in our river. From the preliminary information I have, what could be done is to build our own holding dams here in Nigeria and a regular desilting of our rivers.
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