Abia govt warns residents against possible flooding, reactivates emergency committees

Abia State authorities says its section of clime alteration and different applicable agencies person begun proactive measures to support the authorities from flooding successful 2026.

The State’s Commissioner for Environment, Mr Philemon Ogbonna, who made the plans known connected Thursday, said the proactive enactment was successful effect to the predictions that Abia could acquisition abnormal rainfall this year.

He said the section exigency committees crossed the 17 section authorities areas of the authorities person been activated to coordinate responses and minimise the interaction of imaginable flooding.

Ogbonna explained that nationalist enlightenment campaigns person been intensified to guarantee that residents are alert of the flood predictions and are adequately prepared for immoderate eventuality.

He noted that the authorities is collaborating with applicable agencies and civilian nine organisations to make exigency effect plans, including the mentation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP, camps should the request arise.

Ogbonna urged Abians to stay vigilant and enactment authorities efforts by keeping drainages cleanable and avoiding activities that obstruct the escaped travel of tempest water.

He warned against indiscriminate discarded disposal, noting that blocked drainage channels ar...