Ebonyi residents raise alarm over flood threat, urge swift government action‎

Residents of Ebonyi State person called connected the authorities to intensify preventive measures against imaginable flooding pursuing warnings by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency that the authorities and 18 others whitethorn witnesser flash floods owed to dense downpour.

The bureau warned that prolonged adust conditions whitethorn harden the soil, reducing h2o absorption and expanding aboveground runoff susceptible of triggering floods successful susceptible communities.

Speaking exclusively to DAILY POST connected Friday, a resident, Chinedu Ngwuta, described the prediction arsenic a timely warning, urging the authorities to fortify nationalist sensitisation done vigor programmes, markets and section dialect campaigns to support lives and property.

Ngwuta further appealed to authorities to found Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for susceptible residents, peculiarly farmers who whitethorn beryllium unwilling to wantonness their homes and farmlands without alternate structure arrangements.

Another resident, Ukah David, blamed authorities for permitting operation successful flood-prone areas, stressing that sustained nationalist ...