The Anambra State Directorate of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Awka, has taking her flood safety alert campaign to the flood prone communities of Ayamelum, Anambra East and West Local Government Areas of Anambra State.
Addressing the people on different occasions in their respective local government headquarters at Anaku,Otuocha and Nzam communities, the Anambra State Director of the Agency, Mr.Edozie Ajaegbu, adivsed residents of the flood prone communities in the visited areas to adopt corrective measures capable of avoiding the yearly occurrence of the flooding in the communities.
He also,urged the people to form the habit of desilting the drainages around their buildings and as well avoid building their houses on or near water channels in order to prevent the yearly flooding in the areas.
Distributing the flyers on how to prevent the flood to the people, the Director,enjoined them to be more proactive by knowing the periods the flood occurs in the area and the necessary things to do at any giving time in order not to be victems.
The Deputy Director Programmes,NOA Awka, Mr.Remigus Obi,while lending his voice, informed the people that the Cameroonian authorities had released the water from the lagdo dam,hence the overflowing of the water banks in Nigeria.
He equally briefed them that the current flooding in the country would affect eleven states in Nigeria of which Anambra State is one of them, adding that Ayamelum, Anambra East and West Local Government Areas were some of most targetted places the flood would hit hard in the state and appealed to them to assist NOA in telling their people to move away from the flooding areas for the safety of their lives and property now.
In their separate speeches,the Deputy Director Administration, NOA Awka, Barrister Ifeoma Chijioke and the Assistant Director Programmes,Mr.Obiorah Ignatius,assured the people that the team had seen their rice farms, palm trees and houses submerged by the flood, asking the elites in the communities that they have a lot of works to do by telling their people the need to cultivate their crops on time to avoid the havoc and the devastations that comes with the flood water in the areas
From her, the Special Adviser to the Executive Chairman of Anambra East, Mrs Ngozi Udozor, the President -General of Anaku Community, Mr Nwauba Paul and the Deputy Chairmam of Anambra West Local Government Area,Mrs Nkerika Ndife, described the event as very apt,saying that it is very necessary to educate and sensitize the people on all they needed to known about the flood to avoid more havoc in the worst affected areas.
The Councillors Otuocha ward two and his counterpart in Aguleri -Otu ward,Mr.Neche Odigbo and Emmanuel Moukwe, Mr.Henry Agu and Mr Iwuno Francis,called on the federal government to seek for permanent solution for the flooding by building irrigation for their early cultivation,dam and dredging of the river Niger and Benue to contain the flood water from the lagdo dam of the Cameroon to Nigeria.
However, the Anglican Bishop of Niger East, Right Reverend Obiorah Ugochukwu was represented on one of the events,held at the headquarters of Anambra West Local Government,Nzam,by Venerable Peter Attaje, incharge of Saint Marks Church of the community.
