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The Benue State Government says it has stepped up efforts to reduce the risk of flooding across the state through early monitoring and preventive measures.
Among the steps being implemented is the daily monitoring of river water levels to determine when residents in vulnerable communities should be relocated to safer areas.
The Commissioner for Water Resources, Environment and Climate Change, Odoh Ugwu, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Makurdi on Tuesday.
His comments come after the Federal Government, through the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), placed Benue and several other states on a seven-day medium flood alert.
The agency attributed the warning to increasing water levels recorded at major river monitoring stations, raising the possibility of localized flooding in river channels and floodplains.
Ugwu explained that the state government begins flood…
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