He recently revealed this while speaking at the opening ceremony of Online Regional Training on Flood Monitoring and Forecasting Modelling, in Abuja.
According to him, the recent tech brought into the country has definitely helped to predict flooding situations in Nigeria, while also helping to find those who have been affected or could be affected.
He added that the brilliant idea will Nigeria to make more wise decisions to decrease the disaster associated with flooding in our dear nation.
“Human beings are somehow meant to be unruly. So, the society needs to be guided by law, else I can go to your house and just mess it up. If there are no laws to say ‘you cannot dump refuse here’ then everywhere will be messy. We need to abide by the regulations and rules.”
“Also, it has been said that the whole of Netherlands is on a flood lane but they use engineering and other means to ensure that they stay afloat most of the time. We have millions of dollars lost every year to flooding in Africa, forcing ECOWAS to make a policy on disaster risk reduction but more has to be done to ensure that the impact is lower in Nigeria and other countries.”
“We need to support our rural communities on how best use flood when it occurs because at times if it coming far away from this country, you can harness the water overflowing for many other things in agriculture. In raining season, you can channel it for irrigation.”
“We are feeling the economic impact of this disaster. We are looking at riverine flooding. You know our people settle along the rivers. And they have their livelihoods there; they are farmers and can’t come to towns.”
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