AMAC to intervene in Karu floods

By Baba Yusuf

Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has promised to intervene in the recent rainfall in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which caused a lot of damages in Karu in order to assist the victims.

Our correspondent reports that the damages caused by the rain had caused flooding in the area leading to property worth millions of naira being destroyed and culverts cut off from some estates.
Acting Chairman of AMAC, Lawrence Onuchukwu, who visited the scenes of the flooding, said the Council was informed about the incident in Karu at the weekend, adding: “I have seen what damages the rain have cause in this community. My visit today would make me go to back to the Council and have immediate intervention meeting on how to repair the damages and console the people involved.”
He, however, called on the community leader in Karu to continue to sensitise the people living in flood-prone areas on the need to observe certain environmental regulations to aver such mishaps.
“One of such regulations is to stop dumping refuse indiscriminately in the area.”

Speaking when he received the acting chairman in his palace, the Dagacin Hausawa Karu, Chief Suleiman Abdulkadir Musa, commended the chairman for his quick intervention, saying that their administration “is one of the best” he had ever seen.
He admitted that the community had been warned about the flood, but that the residents did not listen to their sensitisation campaigns, but that as community leaders, they would continue to do their work by “telling them to stay away from flood-prone areas.”

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