States along the River Niger axis such as Kogi, Abia, Anambra, Rivers, Niger, Kebbi, Bayelsa among others risk imminent flooding as neighbouring country, Niger plans to empty its dam.
The pending flood, which stakeholders have compared to 2012 flood in Nigeria is due to commence soonest after the National Emergency Management Agency received the orange alert from Niger recently.
This is coming at a time when stakeholders revealed that Kainji Dam, Jebba Dam and Shiroro Dam are almost full and cannot contain any other water.
This is even as the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday, sent out alert warning to the identified states, calling on them to scale-up their preparedness to avert imminent consequences.
The director general of NEMA, Engr. Mustapha Maihaja noted that the Agency has organized a flood coordination forum and is therefore calling on the general public in the aforementioned areas to move to higher grounds and the respective state governments to engage in sensitization, evacuation and preparation for possible flooding.
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