The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, says four local government areas in Lagos are prone to flooding.
Farinloye said this on Tuesday during a sensitisation in the Mushin area of the state on the prevention, management and mitigation of flood in high-risk flood-prone areas.
He said, “We have the menace of Oyan dam release, which is going to affect parts of Lagos State. We carried out vulnerability assessment with certain agencies at the state level and we discovered that eight million people might probably be affected by flood in Lagos State this year.
“The highly probable LGAs are Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos Mainland, Ikorodu and Mushin. We decided to kick-off this campaign from Mushin because waste from Oshodi and Surulere come through the Mushin canal; the canal leads to Badia and other parts of Apapa. Some parts of the canal have been blocked and there are a lot of the materials blocking the free flow of water from the canal.
“People should know we have this danger at hand and they should know what to do when these things happen. Before heavy rains, there is the need to clear our drainage channels and that is why we are here to see the situation first hand.”
