descartes400:
If you look at the picture, areas of flooding are purely water ways which begged the question; why would people build houses in water ways?

Shey, we are all seeing the consequences.

Pray4naija:
And their governor want to become president
Clown

KingLennon:
That is a massive loss but well the governor is not interested because he stays in a GRA...

Enskynelson:

This is a natural disaster! Even the best of places with good drainages can suffer this.

descartes400:
If you look at the picture, areas of flooding are purely water ways which begged the question; why would people build houses in water ways?

Shey, we are all seeing the consequences.

bestman09:

My heart goes out to the affected people. If not that Nigeria is a failed nation, government will help them out as I know that lost and damaged properties will require a lot of money to fix up.
My happiness is that I haven't heard of any casualty

Reference:


Another postulate.
Let me humbly ask this question.
Who is not on a waterway in all of Lokoja... Lagos island, Makurdi, Onitsha and other locations under threat. Is waterway a factor of location or rainfall.

If rain falls a day longer, a week longer, a month longer, for three more months till the year ends won't it redefine the location of these 'WATERWAYS', because we have all heard this saying that, 'water will always find it's level and chart it's course.

So when you are considering buying that land or processing that CofO, who do you consult for safety, a town planner, an environmentalist, geographer or a metrologist.... just asking?

Debate.... after looking at the pictures again... carefully.

ecolime:


This is really sad.

The structure of those houses would be weak and very compromised now.

kowema:
The flood is usually pretold before it happens. I've heard many agencies call for the Dams to be worked on, drainages cleared in that area and all to mitigate the flood..it feels like it's never done.
I can't forget the first time it escalated in 2012.
I was travelling as a corper from Benin to Jigawa.
That road was unplyable. The rivers had over flowed their bank, farms produce unharvestable, houses submerged, communities made homeless. Traffic we met at Lokoja was 2 weeks old. We had to use a crane to cross our bus tru the nearby River. The scariest experience of my life. One crane carried 2 buses loaded with 15 passengers and 1 small car. 15k per vehicle to cross us.
My heart sank over an over in this 10 mins of one of the riskiest moves of my life. Like what if the crane just bends?, We'd just sink.
Kai!.
Years after it's still same.
See the picture below

pheelhip:
Disheartening
Their Emilokan father might not donate to their support this time

Ihatebuhariwith:
so rain no fall for Scotland?

xaggar:


Try to understand the difference between flooding and river overflow.

Flooding comes from a heavy downpour. A river overflow is as a result of the river unable to contain a huge amount of water.
Dredging the river basin is one way to tackle this. Remove the excess sands accumulated over the years from the river so it can handle more volumes of water.

The deeper the river the less space its waters takes on the adjoining banks or land.

favinvest:
We have alot of solutions but zero political will:

(1) Dredging River Niger, all the water will flow straight to the Atlantic ocean.

(2) Build dams.. to store some of these water.. and release them for irrigation to the northern farmers during dry season

Pray4naija:
And their governor want to become president
Clown

KennethEnyi:
Good for them let God keep using natural disasters to wipe out agbado people one by one so that we can have peace

HeadNigga:
Can't resources be deployed to mitigate against this? Na only road our politicians sabi. I hope we get it right with the next set of leaders we elect next year.

kowema:
The flood is usually pretold before it happens. I've heard many agencies call for the Dams to be worked on, drainages cleared in that area and all to mitigate the flood..it feels like it's never done.
I can't forget the first time it escalated in 2012.
I was travelling as a corper from Benin to Jigawa.
That road was unplyable. The rivers had over flowed their bank, farms produce unharvestable, houses submerged, communities made homeless. Traffic we met at Lokoja was 2 weeks old. We had to use a crane to cross our bus tru the nearby River. The scariest experience of my life. One crane carried 2 buses loaded with 15 passengers and 1 small car. 15k per vehicle to cross us.
My heart sank over an over in this 10 mins of one of the riskiest moves of my life. Like what if the crane just bends?, We'd just sink.
Kai!.
Years after it's still same.
See the picture below

tunapawizzy:

I doubt it, looks like people are still ready to vote for the one that pays highest for their vote, or the one that comes from their village.

sonofElElyon:
International humanitarian assistance needed.. wonder why the federal government is not giving the disaster the attention it deserves

jayworld15:



Says who?

If there isn't good drainage system, building of houses along water paths, blockage of water channels etc, there'll always be flooding. Many things happened due to man made mistakes. This is a man made error

CoronaVirusRelo:



So the flooding in New-York, Florida, Japan and Paki callstan were man made?

Or do we say the state governors are incompetent?