The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency has said state governments ignored its repeated warnings on impending flooding in the country.
The agency’s Director-General, Clement Nze, said his agency had earlier in the year sounded the alarm of the heavy downpour and consequent flooding expected in the country but the state governments did not prepare by taking proactive and preventive environmental measures.
The River Niger Basin was flooded and the magnitude of flood from this area was expected to arrive in Nigeria through Kebbi State.
NIHSA had said no fewer than 102 local government areas in 28 states fall within highly probable flood risk zones.
So far this year, Kebbi, Niger, Zamfara, Sokoto, Bauchi states, amongst others, have been ravaged by floods, with scores killed, thousands displaced and farmlands washed away.
