By Perez Brisibe

UGHELLI—THE Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CPEJ, has urged the Federal Government to put adequate measures in place to avert an impending flooding in some parts of the country.

Addressing newsmen during an interactive session in Ughelli, Delta State, national coordinator of the group, Sheriff Mulade, urged the Federal Government to dialogue with the Cameroonian and Guinean authorities towards working out modalities on how to tackle the challenges of flooding in their respective countries.

He said: “With the opening of Cameroonian and Guinean dams coupled with the heavy rainfall experienced between May and September, no fewer than 20 states in Nigeria are affected by flood. This, however, did not come without several warnings, yet the government and people treated the warnings with levity.”

Bemoaning the loss of lives and property as a result of the flooding, he explained that some communities affected by the floods were yet to be restored to their pristine nature.

He reasoned that given the harsh socio-economic impact of the flood, it was essential that explanatory and attenuating measures were put in place to forestall resurgence, stressing the need for proactive rather than reactionary measures.