NOA Flood Sensitization Evaluation Team Visits Flood-Affected Areas in Kogi State

Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu
DG NOA 

..... Urges affected communities to urgently take the opportunity of the state government resettlement programme to ensure that nobody is at risk from the flooding.


Communities impacted by the release of Lagdo dam continues, have been asked to quickly relocate to safe locations.

This is part of the concerted effort by the National Orientation Agency, NOA which is aimed at ensuring that Nigerians are provided with the needed sensitization and awareness campaigns programmes.

This was the call by the Director General of the NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu in a recent sensitization campaign undertaken by the Agency, recently in Kogi state by the NOA flood sensitization evaluation team.

The DG said all the efforts by the Agency is to achieve minimal impact on these communities with the hope that information will help communities take good decision.

The team included Alhaji Nura Kobi Yusuf of the Department of Planning research and strategy, Emeka Egbugara of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Department and Paul Odenyi of the Press Unit.

The teams' first port of call was Edeha, a fishing community living off the Niger River lane in Koton Karfe. 

The team, according to a statement issued and signed by the Head of the Press unit of thr Agency, Paul Odenyi, had joined the sensitization programme of the state Directorate to the community which has been submerged 80%. Also at the sensitization forum were representatives of Kogi State Government led by Dr. Sandra Mimi Nura and other officials of the state emergency management Agency.

Kogi state Director AbdulGaniyu Dare, said NOA will take the sensitization programme to the nine local councils likely to be affected by the release of water from Lagdo Dam.

Yusuf Kobi, who spoke for the DG urged affected communities to urgently take the opportunity of the state government resettlement programme to ensure that nobody is at risk from the flooding.

He emphasised the urgency of the sensitization program for affected residents.

The affected communities, including Adamugu, Akpaku, Oniwaru, Owara, Igamuma, Adabode, and Egaki according to the community leader, Chief Abdullahi Isah are beginning to evacuate to safer locations.

The Maigari of Lokoja Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Gambo who also met with the team expressed gratitude to NOA, noting that his people are accustomed to recurrent floods and are reluctant to leave their ancestral homes saying NOA sensitization will help to change attitude of local community members.

Other locations visited are Ikpata Market, Ganaja, known locally as 500 Unit Ajaokuta LGA, as part of their efforts to assess the situation and provide support. 

The visit underscored the need for coordinated action and awareness to address the risks associated with flooding.

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