Today’s Flood Update In Omoku, River State. “It Had Never Been Bad Like This For Us Before” -Omoku Residents Laments In A Video.

For the past few months, Governor Nyesom Wike’s focus has been on the political developments in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), fighting the party’s leadership over the alleged injustice committed against him. However, there’s an urgent issue that’s more deserving of the attention of the Rivers state governor:

The floods in Omoku.

Floods submerge houses in Omoku, Rivers state.

Rampaging floods have sacked residents of Omoku, the headquarters of the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area. Photos of submerged buildings and residents passing through water that has reached their chests and with loads on their heads “flood” social media as the crisis worsens. Omoku is said to be home to about 200,000 people.

The director-general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Habib Ahmed, said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved 12,000 metric tons of grains for victims of floods across the country. The people of Omoku are yet to receive the grain, and they even need more than grains to survive.

Meanwhile, Governor Wike, who is recently out of the country, is blaming the federal government for the floods, saying the development is “a result of lack of initiative on the part of the federal government to dredge the River Benue and River Niger respectively.” On the other hand, the NEMA DG said the federal government alerted states and local government areas about the dangers ahead of the flood and used risk mapping to identify vulnerable areas that would be affected, but the warnings were not heeded. Nigerian lady sad as flood affects her newly built house In a related development, a Nigerian lady, Alex Ijeoma Evelyn, became so sad after the recent flood that has been ravaging different parts of the country affected her house. Taking to TikTok, Ijeoma shared a video showing how the beautiful house looked when it was built and the current condition with the flood. The flood covered everywhere in the building’s compound.