Gov Willie Obiano
Anambra has advised people in flood-prone communities to start getting ready to vacate these places and move to safer areas.
This is coming on the heels of warning by the Nigerian Hydrological Serves, NHS, warning that communities and states on the banks of the River Niger and River Benue will be affected by sustained heavy rains expected in the month of September.
According to the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C, Don Adinuba, “the communities in the following local government areas will be affected in particular: Anambra West, Anambra East, Onitsha South, Onitsha North, Ogbaru, Ihiala, Ayamelum, and Awka North.
He said the government would provide holding centres where the affected people will stay until the floods recede following a list submitted to it by the Anambra State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has been given a list of the designated centres, which it will announce shortly.
These centres, whose list has been given to the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, will be provided with clean water, mattresses, bed sheets, blankets, mosquito nets, buckets and all necessary sanitary facilities, he said, adding, they will also be given drugs, and medical personnel like doctors, nurses and pharmacists will be available to attend to them promptly. Water ambulances will, in addition, be made available.
He said; “ Security agents drawn from the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Anambra State Vigilante Group will ensure excellent security throughout the clock.”
