No respite for Bayelsa residents as flooding looms
02 June 2023 |
2:50 am
There appears to be no respite yet for victims of the 2022 flooding in Bayelsa State, as another flooding disaster looms this year Even as experts continue to warn of a more severe flooding in 2023, residents have expresed worries that why most of them were yet to recover their losses...
There appears to be no respite yet for victims of the 2022 flooding in Bayelsa State, as another flooding disaster looms this year Even as experts continue to warn of a more severe flooding in 2023, residents have expresed worries that why most of them were yet to recover their losses, they said government is still not preparing well enough to avert the looming disaster.
According to findings, the 2022 flooding on the residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital showed that over 71 to 77 per cent of residents were affected through building collapse, household items lost, livestock destroyed and many others
Some residents of Yenagoa, who spoke with The Guardian, including Swali, Opolo, Tombia, Akenfa and Agudama said they suffered diarrhoea, malaria, cough and measles during the period.
A resident, who lost all his poultry farms to the flood, Mr. Chukwudi Onyechefule, said he invested over N1 million in the business in December 2021 and had 1,000 fully matured birds before flood swept them away. He said the impact of the 2022 flooding in Yenagoa was extensive, as such government should implement measures to mitigate future occurrence.
The Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency (BYSEMA) said about 1.5 million people were affected by flooding. The agency said 96 deaths were recorded and about 1.2 million displaced people were in Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) across the state.
BYSEMA chairman, Walamam Igrubia, who said collation of data was ongoing, noted that flood affected a number of farmlands, school buildings, health structures, and other facilities across 300 communities in the eight Local Councils of the state.
He said: “Preliminary reports and data available to SEMA and other agencies indicate that Bayelsa remained the most flood-impacted among states in the country.”
According the State Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Hon. Ayiba Duba, the level of flooding last year was more than any year the state could recall, as the entire state was under water. He said the government had set up a post-flood management committee to look at ways of avoiding and curtailing further occurrence.
According to him, the committee headed by the Deputy Governor, will collate, identify the infrastructure that is damaged, collapsed and aggregate everything as well as come up with cost implication of each and every one of those projects.
Recall that governor Douye Diri had while presenting the 2023 budget, with the theme, ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth and Reconstruction’, earmarked N77.92 billion to tackle flooding and other infrastructural projects. The figure represents 20 per cent of the proposed N385.2 billion total budget for the fiscal year.
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