Motorists resort to using Canoes to Navigate the Route
Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Mailafia, addressing journalists at the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday said the government was on top of the situation as the environmental disaster could negatively impact on the nation’s food supply.
She said the trio of construction firms namely Julius Berger, Dantata & Sawoe and RCC had been mobilized to the site in order to restore normalcy to the area.
Mailafia said, “The consequences (of the flood) is that there are huge losses of farmlands, there are likely threat to food security, we are likely going to have challenges that have to do with the health of the people in some areas.
“The flooding we are experiencing in the country do not in any way fall into what you can term man made.
“This is a natural phenomenon that cuts across the globe. With the technology in places like the United States, they still had the flooding there, in China and even our neighbour Niger with an arid land.
“For anyone to think that government has not done well or that there was something that we needed to do that we have not done is a little bit awesome because there is a limit to which you can fight nature.
“Where you have in a country where well over 5,000 farmlands washed away, then there is cause for attention. It is of national interest. So all what we are saying is that it is a national emergency. It calls for sober reflection,” she said.
The mnister added that an alternative route would be ready today.
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