Nigeria: Obuah Blames Blocked Drainages, Waterways for Port Harcourt Flooding

26 July 2017

The Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Mr. Felix Obuah, has blamed the unfortunate flooding in Port Harcourt, which rendered some people homeless and destroyed property on the refusal of the people doing business in the city to heed to several warnings from the agency regarding indiscriminate dumping of refuse.

In a statement issued yesterday by Obuah's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Jerry Needam, the RIWAMA sole administrator described the flooding, which engulfed parts of Port Harcourt and its environs at the weekend as unfortunate and highly regrettable.

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