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The latest flood alert by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) may have been a false alert as the states it said would experience imminent flooding have not recorded such incidents.
LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that on October 7, 2023, NEMA issued warnings of possible floods in nine states based on the sudden floods experienced in Adamawa State.
Subsequent incidents point to the fact that the disaster interventionist agency may have sent out the warning without complete data on the volume of water released from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon or the expected rainfall.
The director general of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, had at a press conference warned of possible floods in Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Anambra, Edo, Delta and Bayelsa.
However, in seven of the nine states listed, the floods failed to materialise. The implication is that many Nigerians may start to take flood alerts less seriously and refuse to heed subsequent warnings from the government.
At the October 7 press conference, Ahmed had said, “NEMA has been alerted on sudden increased inundation of riverine communities and farmlands along the banks of River Niger in Adamawa, Taraba and Benue states in the past 48 hours
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