The Senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Senator Abdul Ningi, has urged all stakeholders in the country to come up with a marshal plan to tackle the recurring dangers of flooding and climate change in various parts of Nigeria.
Senator Ningi disclosed this while contributing to a motion on the ‘Urgent Need for Intervention in the Humanitarian Crisis Caused by Flooding in Adamawa North Senatorial District’, sponsored by Senator Amos K. Yohanna, during the Senate Plenary on Tuesday.
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He said climate change is a scientific reality that needs to be taken into serious consideration, as it has been threatening the country’s environment by flooding every year.
According to him, every year, 13 to 25 states of the country are witnessing flooding and that a report said by the year 2030, the entire country will be flooded.
“Even though climate change is a global challenge that affects the entire world. But in Nigeria, we don’t have proactive plans towards addressing it. The developed world is making a serious move to proactively address the problem.
“This is a scientific reality that we cannot escape, hence the need to proactively address it. We don’t have to always wait until it occurs, no. We have to work against it. We have to prepare for it, otherwise there will be problems.”
Similarly, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, said the country should take proactive measures to address the threat of flooding and climate change every year, citing reference to the recent flood in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and the recent alert on the release of Lagdo Dam in Cameroon.
