80 Percent Of The Flood In This Country Is Water That We Are Blessed With From God From The Sky – Minister Of Water Resources

October 21, 2022
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Minister of water resources, Suleiman Adamu

Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of water resources has stated that the recent flooding in the country should not be blamed on Cameroon’s Lagdo dam.

Adamu who spoke at his ministry’s 2023 budget defence in Abuja, said social media posts attributing the floods to Cameroon are misleading as 80 percent of the floods in the country is water coming from the sky.

He stated that the contribution of the Lagdo dam to flooding in this country is only one percent.
 
He said;

“All these stories I’ve been seeing on social media, I just laugh, because they are misleading.

“The contribution of the Lagdo dam to flooding in this country is only one percent. Sometimes they release the water without notice and when they do that, it has impact on communities downstream.

“But it is not the main reason we have floods in this country — 80 percent of the floods in this country is water that we are blessed with from God from the sky.

“This year’s flood, I can assure you, we cannot blame it on Cameroon to be sincere. We’ll continue to have floods on the river Niger and Benue basins. We signed the MOU with the Cameroonian authorities but since then, every year, it is the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) that calls them ‘what is your level in Lagdo?’

“Even this one when he called them, I was communicating with the DG NIHSA, I said ‘what’s happening in Cameroon?’ He said he has been calling them and they said they have not released any water but they said they will inform us. Finally, they said they will inform us tomorrow, they didn’t inform us, they informed us 24 hours after they had released the water.

“They did the same thing two years ago, I wrote to the minister of foreign affairs and Nigeria had to write a protest letter to the Cameroonian authorities that they did not inform us.

“It was after our rains had gone down, suddenly we saw floods in Adamawa area and we were asking them. For two weeks they were denying that they had opened the reservoir. Of course, it didn’t go to the confluence, it was limited to the areas of Adamawa state and Taraba. Because like I said, the contribution to the flood by Lagdo dam is not so high.”
 

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