Video Period 25 minutes 35 seconds
Tons of of individuals have died within the worst flooding in a decade in northeastern Nigeria.
Northeastern Nigeria is seeing a few of its worst flooding in years with about 500 folks killed and a whole lot of hundreds of properties destroyed.
The flooding has been made worse by seasonal rain and the deliberate water launch from a dam in neighbouring Cameroon.
The Lagdo Dam is in northern Cameroon and was in-built 1982. Nigeria was supposed to construct its personal dam to offset the surplus, however by no means completed it.
So what has been the federal government’s response to the devastation?
Presenter: Tom McRae
Visitors:
Suleiman Adamu – Nigeria’s minister of water sources
David Arinze – Local weather activist and renewable power specialist
Manu Lekunze – College of Aberdeen professor; writer of, Complicated Adaptive Techniques, Resilience and Safety in Cameroon