Amid the stand-off between commercial motorcyclists and the authorities in Lagos over the ban of Okada,mind-boggling figures show high Okada fatality rate in the state.

Alowei Broderick Bozimo is a former Minister of Police Affairs. Bozimo’s farm and his country home in Bomadi, Delta State were washed away by flood. In this interview, he regrets not following the foot steps of his father in building a storey building in the village after seeing the flood take over his building and farm. He also speaks on the security challenges facing the nation and other national issues.

When the news filtered into town that a man had pushed his wife into a completely filled pit latrine resulting to her death, the story sounded bizarre.

“When that torrential rainfall pulverized the ground on December 31, 2011 causing pool of water in some low areas of Yenagoa many of us thought it was a sign of good things to come but ten months after we are faced with the worst disaster one could ever imagined. I have seen floods in the last 59 years but they are nothing compared to what we are experiencing today. I have lost all I laboured for in life,” lamented Madam Edaere Thomas, one of the displaced persons at the Bishop Dimieri Grammar School relief camp.

The total sum of N22m was last week released by Gombe state government to rehabilitate the flood victims. Sequel to speculations that the funds and items purchased may be hijacked by politicians and corrupt officials, the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA says it was going to supervise the exercise.