By Banke Oniru
This year’s flooding came like a
thief in the night unexpectedly and left a devastating effect on the land.
Bayelsa is among 33 of 36 Nigerian states grappling with the devastation effect of the country’s worst flooding in a decade. More than 600 lives have been lost in the floods across the affected region and a projection that almost 1.5 million people have been displaced while almost 3.5 million people had been affected, according to the humanitarian ministry.
Are we saying that the ministry responsible for the monitoring of the weather didn’t get the wind that such a disaster was lurking? And if they did, what did they do, and what was done to notify or evacuate people from the right of way of the long shadow of the flood?
