By Christiana Ekpa
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Ecological Fund Office to provide immediate flood control measures, especially the construction of preventive dikes around Damasak, Abadam and Mallam Fatori Towns in Borno State.
The House also mandated the Committees on Environment and Ecological Fund to ensure compliance.
These followed the adoption of a motion “Urgent Need for Flood Control Measures in Damasak, Abadam and Mallam Fatori Towns of Yobe State” by Hon. Mallam Bukar Gana:
The House noted that Damasak, Mallam Fatori and Abadam towns, which are the headquarters of Mobbar and Abadam Local Government Areas, respectively, are all prone to heavy seasonal flooding every rainy season.
The House said the towns are on the plain lands of the Komadugu-Yobe River which usually overflows its banks in the rainy season, resulting in flooding and consequent destruction of properties, which has become an annual occurrence.
The House said this year’s rainy season is fast approaching and as such, residents of those areas are apprehensive of the imminent floods and the disaster that would ensue.
