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Nigeria: FG Re-Iterates Commitment to Curbing Flood Disasters
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Nasir Imam
Abuja
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Hajiya Halima Tayo Alao has said that the present administration will not rest on its oars until the problem of flooding in the country is brought to its barest minimum.
Speaking in an interview with Daily Trust in Abuja, the minister said even in flood and erosion management, some of these are erosion related. "We are doing some shore line protection projects for Lagos State and erosion control at Paiko in Niger, Benue, Kogi, and Delta States.
"Quite a lot of money has been committed by the government in the protection of the shore line in Lagos state. We know that Lagos prior to now have a lot of flooding problem and over the years a lot of money has been expended to the area, we are not relenting our efforts. This year we have budgeted some amount of money for the Lagos shore line protection project. We hope that the state government would also compliment efforts of the federal government in ensuring that the shore line is adequately protected."
"We were in Benue to commission the Katsina- Ala phase 1 flood control project at the cost of N158 million which is part of our 2006 projects for completion."
She said the result of food crisis is tied to the issue of climate change "because in low land areas where you have rice production there is so much flooding because the ice are melting and once the ice melts the sea level rises and causes flooding on the low land. Low lands all over the world are subjected to flooding, so it would lead to the washing away of the crops.
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"We should do this in our own way and from our homes, as such we promoted the issue of tree planting as an important way in cooling the earth. We must plant trees to cool the earth rather than making it a recreation issue or promotion of tourism or shed. There is a very important role that tree planting plays in areas of drought, desertification, land degradation, it holds the soil together. Because of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is principally what is warming up the earth.", the minister said.
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