Environment

Oyo Govt Promises Completion of Bridges Under Construction

By Web News 419

Oyo state government says its interventions implemented under the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, IUFMP, before this year’s rainy season contributed to the relatively flood free status experienced so far.

Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinola Ojo made this known while addressing newsmen on the flood status of Ibadan in 2022 and preparedness for the coming year.

Mr ojo explained that the strategic implementation of the IUFMP has helped Oyo state to prove flood predictions from relevant government agencies wrong, despite the devastating it had on many states of the federation.

The commissioner who promised that all brigdes and covets under construction in the state would be completed before the next rainy season, appealed to residents to desist from improper waste disposal, poor land use pattern and building on water ways.

Mr Ojo said the vulnerability of Ibadan to river and urban flooding is induced by the city’s topographic terrain, the problem of indiscriminate waste disposal and climate change.

He noted that the state has Identified that issues of flooding cannot be solved with addressing waste disposal, promising to continue to sensitize people on proper ways of waste disposal.

Mosope Kehinde

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Environment

We Are Taking The Flood Warning Seriously – Oyo Govt.

By Web News 918

Oyo State government has directed the full implementation of the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, IUFMP, over an annual flood rainfall prediction report 2020 which listed eleven local government areas of the state as flood-prone areas.

Secretary to the Oyo State government, Mrs Olubanwo Adeosun gave the directive at a press conference held at the Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan.

Mrs Adeosun urged the residents in the state to take the prediction seriously through clearing of drain channels, shunning indiscriminate dumping of waste and desisting from building houses on waterways. 

Earlier, the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, IUFMP, had organised a stakeholders’ meeting on the flood warning.

At the meeting, the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Lateef Oyeleke called for community-based intervention in averting the predicted flooding. 

Also the Executive Secretary of Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, IUFMP, Mr Dayo Ayorinde said the agency was committed to implementing necessary intervention to mitigate the reoccurrence of flooding in the state.

Stakeholders at the meeting agreed to forge a common front to save the state from flooding through orientation of members of their communities.

The list of the probable flood-risk areas include Ona-Ora, Lagelu, Oyo East, Kajola and Egbeda.

Others are Ogbomoso South, Iseyin, Ibarapa North, Ibadan South West, Ibadan North West and Ibadan South East.

Iyabo Adebisi

Governor Makinde recieving the IUFMP Team
Environment

Makinde Lauds IUFMP, Promises to Tackle Flooding

By Web News 747

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has expressed the readiness of his government to take proactive measures to end flooding in the state.

Governor Makinde said this in Ibadan at a workshop tagged “Ibadan Flood Forecast, Early Warning and Implementation”.

The governor who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun said his administration would readily support the implementation of the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, IUFMP and other ongoing intervention projects in the state.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, lauds the IUFMP on the flood forecast initiative, which he said will furnish the people with prior alerts about impending flood disasters.

The statement describes the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (lUFMP) as a people-oriented project set up to change the narrative of incessant and ravaging flood disasters in the state.

The governor stated that the state would be expecting value for its investment in the project, which he noted should be in terms of immediate gains in the area of safety of lives and properties, as well as measurable capacity building for homegrown technocrats and public servants who would be required to sustain the initiative, post-IUFMP.

Governor Makinde also called on the operators of the project to ensure that the advantages of the project were transferred to other communities in the state through a form of knowledge transfer.

Iyabo Adebisi