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FLOOD COULD CAUSE NIGERIA POTENTIAL DAMAGES



FLOOD COULD CAUSE NIGERIA POTENTIAL DAMAGES
 
Well, little effort has been put in place in order to help combat the unforeseen flood disaster. Among this is awareness to help people prevent these challenges, building of channel for water passage, drainage and evacuating the living and building along the water path. Despite the effort putting in place people still show nonchalant attitude toward flood awareness program. I would still say that if Nigeria experiences more rainfall that is beyond that of 2012, many lives and property worth millions will be destroy as a result of nonchalant attitude of the people, small size of drainage system and low quality of material for building drainage system and inaction of the leaders.
The Heavy rain fall experienced by Nigerian cities early 2012 killed 363 and rendered useless over 2,100,000 people as of November, 2012(Reuters, 2012) The cities such as Lagos, Ibadan (oke-ayo and Eleyele), Plateau, Jos, Cross River, Borno, Benue, Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Kwara, Anambra, Taraba and Admawa tasted flood that result to submerged of properties, crops and means of livelihood destroy in the affected States.(The pointer). Also in 2013 some 35,000 people were affected also by flood majorly in five states (OCHA) while 600 people were displaced along with 20 unearthed at a cemetery in Kano and 55 farms were inundated by the heavy rain fall.(NEMA). NEMA were able to prevent the  occurrence flood disaster in 2013 by early warning and rapid relocation of communities to help prevent loss of lives while Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) improved on their emergency response to disasters.
More hand still need to come on desk to build a strong city that will withstand flood disaster in Nigeria. More and bigger drainage need to be done, quality of materials need to be use for drainage system and houses in a flood arena should be destroy and thorough awareness must be done for the people benefit. Also quick action need to be done to help those that disaster has introduced pain in their lives and family. We should stop assuming, formulating data without helping the people we said we are helping through our formulated data and get into action so that people can also help getting involved in building a strong and flexible cities that will withstand against unforeseen disaster.
We can’t fight against any disasters if politics is introduced in everything we do. Playing politics in building a resilient city will result in catastrophic city.
Cheers!!!

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