The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has projected that Akwa Ibom ranks one of the states to be impacted heavily by the deluge of rains, warning that the state would record the highest number of rainy days in 2025, ranging from 250 to 290 days, with an attendant risk of flooding and spread of cholera.
Consequently, the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has urged citizens and residents to ensure regular desilting of drainages, gutters and other water channels within their vicinity to forestall flood and other ecological disasters.
Speaking at the Government House Monthly Prayer Service for the month of May, 2025, held at the Latter House Chapel, Governor’s Lodge, Uyo, the governor warned against the practice of indiscriminate refuse disposal and blockage of drainages with refuse.
Tasking the people to be proactive in environmental cleanliness, he explained that while the state remains committed to playing its part to avert the projected disaster, all hands must be on deck to confront the impending environmental emergency.
“Akwa Ibom has been mentioned as one of the states that will experience flood this year. Therefore, we must prepare.
Please, clean the drainages around you, and also organize community service for this. Government will embark on desilting of the drainages, but support the effort of government to succeed,” he charged.
Besides, Governor Eno, directed the Ibom Community Watch to map out strategies to monitor and restrain people from indiscriminate dumping of refuse to prevent regular blockage of drainages.
He sympathised with those who had already been affected by natural disasters and assured them that the government would send relief materials to the victims.
