Flood

79,000 DISPLACED IN FLOOD IN CROSS RIVER.

The Director-General of the state Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Vincent Aqua, said this in Calabar on Tuesday while delivering a paper titled ‘Flooding and Climate Change Adaptation in Cross River: Safety Measures for Schoolchildren’.
The workshop was jointly organised by the ministry of information and the United Nations Children Fund.

Aqua said, “It is on record that most of those known to have drowned in flood water or killed by windstorms are children. When we got to one of the communities where flooding recently occurred, three days after, the corpse of a young girl that got drowned was still not buried, because there was no dry land for a grave to be dug to lower her remains.

“Cross River State is not exempt from all the climatic adversity. In recent times, the state has experienced various effects of climate change such as increase in intensity of precipitation, loss of agricultural land and deaths, especially involving children.”