NUJ warns against building on waterways in Ekiti, seeks immediate flood prevention measures

The Ekiti State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ has called connected the State Government and residents to instrumentality contiguous and coordinated measures to forestall flooding crossed the state.

This telephone followed the caller dense rainfall that submerged roads and destroyed spot successful parts of Ado-Ekiti and different communities.

The national made the telephone successful a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of its June Congress held connected Wednesday astatine the Tai Oguntayo Hall, NUJ Press Centre, Oke Bareke, Ado-Ekiti.

The communiqué, signed by the Secretary of the council, Comrade Seun Ogunsakin, said the legislature expressed interest implicit the expanding menace posed by flooding and stressed the request for proactive biology absorption to avert further disasters.

According to the communiqué, residents person a captious relation to play by refraining from indiscriminate disposal of garbage into drainage channels, a signifier it described arsenic 1 of the large causes of blocked waterways and municipality flooding.

The national besides urged the Ekiti State Government to intensify efforts astatine clearing blocked drains and opening up waterways to guarantee the escaped travel of tempest h2o during the rainy season.

While sympathising with residents who suffered losses during the caller downpour, the NUJ warned against the continued operation of buildings connected waterways, describing the signifier a...