FCT emergency agency warns residents near water channels to relocate over flood risk

The Acting Director-General of the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department, FEMD, Abdulrahman Mohammed, has urged radical surviving adjacent to h2o channels to see moving to safer areas arsenic rainfall enactment increases crossed Abuja.

The informing came aft a flash flood was recorded successful the aboriginal hours of Friday at a one-storey gathering located astatine 22 Anthony Ikem Street, down Blue Cabana Hotel successful Mabushi District, Abuja.

In a connection issued by the Head of Public Affairs, Nkechi Isa, the bureau explained that dense overnight rainfall led to h2o entering and overwhelming the crushed level of the property.

According to FEMD, it “received a distress telephone astatine astir 3:00 a.m.” and rapidly deployed its Search and Rescue Team to measure and negociate the concern connected the ground.

The connection noted that some apartments connected the little level were flooded up to model level. Emergency responders besides had to manually region h2o aft the generator powering the pumping strategy stopped working.

Although “no beingness was lost,” residents suffered losses specified arsenic household items, nutrient supplies, and important documents that were damaged by the floodwaters.

The bureau further stated, “Meanwhile, the Acting Director-General of FEMD, Abdulrahman Mohammed, has appealed to residents...