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Victims of last year’s flood in Bayelsa State and other residents of the state have called on the state government to promptly clear the drainages and canals around Yenagoa, the state capital to avert the devastating effects of the anticipated flood this year. The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) had predicted that the heavy rainfall that will reach its peak between July and September, 2024 will cause flooding higher than last year’s own.

Disturbed by the prediction and suffering of last year’s flood, some residents around the cemetery road, Azikoro village in Yenagoa, told members of the Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) who went round to see the level of government’s preparedness ahead of the anticipated flood that they needed the relevant government agencies to clean up the canals that empty water into the area from the cemetery area of the state.