Under the leadership of Chief Edwin Clark, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has urged President Bola Tinubu to order relevant Federal Government Ministries and Agencies to take prompt, decisive action to save coastal states from approaching inundation.
PANDEF underlined the seriousness of the situation in a statement released by its National Secretary, Dr. Alfred Mulade, saying that time is of the essence and that immediate action is required to avert dire outcomes.
Millions of Nigerians who live in susceptible locations such as Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Rivers, Delta, and Edo states face an existential threat from the anticipated disaster. President Tinubu was asked by PANDEF to take the following preventive actions:
bolstering and modernizing embankments and flood defenses, evacuating residents of locations at high risk, swiftly providing emergency supplies and assistance, extending all-encompassing assistance to impacted communities, including attempts at reconstruction and rehabilitation, building shelters for displaced people on higher terrain
PANDEF emphasized that in order to preserve the lives of those impacted, the Federal Government must handle this matter with the utmost seriousness and urgency.
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