National Assembly Set To Tackle Flooding

The National Assembly has given its commitment to tackle perennial flooding across the country to forestall further loss of lives and property.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment and Ecology, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saaraki gave this assurance while inspecting an erosion site at Ogo-Oluwa-Feruke Bello Street, Tanke in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital.

Senator Saraki said the National Assembly is poised to collaborate with relevant agencies to arrest imminent danger posed by erosion to various communities in the country. “The Federal Government,” Sen. Saraki said “is aware of the dangers erosion poses to human and capital development and would do everything to address the menace”.

The Senator, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said the implementation of remedial and lasting solutions to erosion challenges in the country had been factored into the 2012 fiscal budget signed by President Jonathan recently.

The federal lawmaker, who expressed concern over the extent of the erosion at Tanke, assured the community that the Federal, State and local governments would be encouraged to collaborate to halt the damage before the end of this year.

He also promised that all erosion prone sites in Kwara State would be given utmost attention in order to prevent any form of disaster in the state.

Senator Saraki, who is the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, called on federal, states and local governments to work together in solving erosion problems in the country.