Chairman, Senate Committee on Water Resources, Muhammad Ubale Shittu, has commended the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) for sensitising the public on how to avoid flooding at the critical period when most of the states in the North-west geo-political zone were being counted among flood prone states.
Speaking at the Flood Awareness/Sensitisation Campaign launched by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) held in Kano yesterday, Shittu said lands, hitherto, not covered by water had been overtaken by flood water, usually arising from accumulation of rain water on saturated ground in aerial flood due to rivers’ overflow.
According to him, the appearance of typha grass in rivers was a big factor responsible for rivers blockages and by extension flooding adding that for over three decades, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states have been devastated by flood almost bi-annually resulting in loss of lives and properties.
Speaking earlier, Kano state Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Ali Haruna Makoda, said the state government had spent huge amounts of money on flood prevention and control stressing that fighting ecological disaster like flooding is one of governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje ‘s major cardinal thrusts.
In his remarks, NIHSA Coordinator for North-west, Alhaji Yunusa Yahaya Ashiru, said the aim of organising the Workshop was to enlighten the general public on the menace of flood which had become a recurring decimal in the country
