Nigeria: Climate Change - Deflooding and Desilting Delta's Coastal Communities

3 October 2012

WHEN Delta State commissioner for environment, Mr. Frank Omare, called to say he had a de-flooding road show to perform, I almost did not take him serious. What, I wondered, is so special about deflooding a coastal area like Delta when other coastal areas in the country are carrying out such similar tasks without a hue and cry.

Seeing they say is believing. If the State government had not embarked on the the various deflooding projects such as construction of drainages, clearing of refuse from canals and water ways as well as desilting this, the people of Delta state would have suffered the worst flooding ever this year.

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