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Tension floods VOX POPULI SACRUM

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 2017

ISSN: 2545-5869

VOL.2 No. 32. N200

Nigeria

All under water • Lagos • Port Harcourt • Asaba

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LOODS, fairly spread across Nigeria, added new tensions to existing ones, among them agitations, long absence of the President, and the recurring matter of managing resources from oil and gas sources. A little sense of humour attended these matters as top officials of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), travelled to London to lunch with the ailing President. Nigerians call it “a lunch break”, as it all produced prattles about the health of the President, and ‘floods’ of spec-

• Onitsha

APGA puts 2 judges on trial

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From NATH OMAME, (Port Harcourt); CHUKS COLLINS (Awka); THEO RAYS (Onitsha), ed the Lagos islands and Lekki PenEMMA OGOIGBE, (Warri) and OGE ONYEANUSI (Nnewi), VICTOR NZE (Lagos).

ulations. The floods were real--sweeping from Lagos, which was having local council elections, to Sapele, Warri, Asaba (both in Delta State), Onitsha (Anambra State) and Port Harcourt, which possibly had one of its worst

floods in decades. It was so bad that Gov. Nyseom Wike waded through the waters, wondering, as residents did, what could have been responsible for these floods. Rains two weeks earlier had affect-

insula. Saturday’s rains devastated parts of mainland, usually considered safe. Surulere was practically under water. Commentators blamed refuse that clogged the drainage system, but it is known that the drainage has been inadequate and blocked in many places.

The bigger question remained what was affecting other parts of the country, after the 2012 floods, which were rated the country’s worst in 40 years? Thirty of 36 States were affected, 2.1m people were displaced, 363 people died, 6,000 houses were destroyed in the 2012 disaster. Some are trying to answer the question, pointing at new urban developments in Lagos. “We have said it several times that adequate studies were not done

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