The Ogun State Government said it will look into the possibility of dredging major rivers within urban centres to aid free flow of such rivers.
The State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, said this at the opening of a two-day sensitisation workshop on Flood Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness in Abeokuta.
According to a statement by the state government, Amosun assured the people that his administration would continue to take proactive steps in addressing the perennial urban flooding in the state.
Amosun lamented that most of the disasters referred to as natural were indeed man-made.
The governor said, “If drainages were clean, structures removed from waterways and river courses, and residents observe the laid down rules and regulation on town planning particularly, the observance of the ‘set back’ rules, the occurrence of flooding in the state would be reduced to the minimum.”
The governor noted that the state had faced the threat of flooding almost on yearly basis since 2007, adding that his administration on assumption of office took special interest in issues affecting the environment and had put in place measures that would check the annual menace.
May 21, 2012 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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