Aggah — A storming flood has again overrun the agrarian Aggah community in Egbema, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, constraining the sacked villagers to sleep on tables and slabs at accessible spaces in their swamped dwellings and shops.
Findings by NDV showed that the community has been under the threat of annual flooding for more than three decades, following the construction of oil installations by an oil company in the 60s, which the Ministry of Environment, Rivers State, in 2015, directed the firm to mitigate to no effect.
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