Flooding: Nasarawa Commissioner advises residents to clean up environment

Mr. Danladi, a lawyer, described Lafia as one of the cleanest cities in Nigeria. He said the prediction of the rain volume for the 2025 has heightened the necessity to clean up the drainages and stay ahead of the flooding season. 'Again, the rains may come and come very heavily. Even NIMET has said it and you don't need anybody to tell you what is happening now, as far as the environmental system is concerned. From what NIMET has said, because of the heat we are experiencing now, the rains are likely to come very heavily. And when the gutters and the soakaways are blocked, the consequential effect is erosion or flood and so on. So, we must see how we must cushion the effect of all that. So, because of that, we are working assiduously with some of our sister organisations to see how we can take proactive measures to curb all these consequences, on the event that they occur,' he said
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