Get Ready For Heavy Rain And Flood- NEMA

 

About 28 states of the federation may experience flood due to impending heavy rainfall according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) .

The agency also disclosed that about 102 local government areas might be at risk of the same menace. This warning is coming on the hills of a similar one from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency on the weather forecast.

NEMA’s Director of Operations in charge of Ekiti, Ondo and Osun States, Mr. Olusegun Afolayan, stated this in Akure, the Ondo State capital while sensitising some residents of the town on how flooding could be avoided.

Afolayan noted that the states under his jurisdiction were also part of the 28 states and the 102 local governments that were risk-prone to flooding.

He said, ” About 28 states and 102 local governments have been earmarked for the possible flooding.

 “Flooding is not always caused by heavy downpour alone, but when dams were opened too, it always leads to flooding.

“There is a prediction from NIMET in February and Nigeria Hydrological Service Agency, in May, informing us of impending heavy rainfall due to climate change and the ozone layer that will lead to flooding.”

According to him, the NEMA in collaboration with the Ondo State Management Emergency Agency organised the sensitisation as part of the agency’s pro-activeness to responding to warning alerts by different agencies dealing with weather.