Flood sacks Delta state ministries, agencies and public schools

For the negligence of Delta State Government to construct drainage channels to control erosion in Asaba, the state capital, government ministries, agencies and a public school owned by the state ministry of women affairs have been sacked by flood that wreaked havoc on the state capital at the early hours of Monday, September 26, 2016. The torrential downpour that started as early as 7.am continued for over three hours breaking through fences, submerging the government ministries and sending the ministry officials packing as the flood took over the offices in the old state secretariat in Asaba.

The flood as discovered by NAIJ.com reporter who visited when the school children were being evacuated from the school, broke through the fence that separated the school from one of the adjoining streets as its force was greater that of the fence. As it broke through the fence, it poured into the school thereby sending the school children and the teachers running and scampering for safety.



The flood took over the entire school even as a sympathiser said the school resume again until the flood permanently dries off the ground. Shop owners, newspaper vendors and horticultural centres build along the path of the flood were also sent packing as the ferocious flood took over the entire area spreading menacingly and gaining ground in the area.



Although no life was reported loss to the flood, the commissioner for women affairs, Omotsola Williams and the special adviser to the state governor on children rights, Bridget Anyafulu and their officials were seen addressing teachers of the school just as the commissioner was heard apportioning blame for one negligent action or the other.



On the other hand, the embarrassed ministry officials were seen driving their cars out in droves while parents of the school children were on ground to collect their school who had escaped from the deadly flood.



Some of the officials who commented blamed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for not giving attention to the drainage challenge in the state capital, though said his administration had commissioned some poor roads in the state capital.



Most roads in Asaba are usually submerged as soon as rain pours on the city. Most deadly is one of the major roads, the Direct Labour Agency road which is a leading road in the state capital. It was learnt that it was awarded to a prominent person in the state but was abandoned by the previous administration of Emmanuel Uduaghan, who consistently told journalists that the road would be built before leaving office on May 29, 2015.



This is one of the painful legacies Uduaghan left behind for the people of Delta State. Across the city of Asaba, one sees broken roads without drainages, hence as soon as rain pours, Asaba becomes a mini river of sort.






Source... Naij.com