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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Saturday, June 26 2004   news   sports   business   politics_people   arts   obituary passages   life & style   Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom Senate Wants Emergency Action Against Lagos Flood FROM ALIFA DANIEL AND AZIMAZI MOMOH JIMOH, ABUJA FLOODING in Lagos State is receiving the attention of the Senate. The state may soon get help from the Federal Government following the upper chamber's call for its intervention to check the menace. Endorsing a motion brought before it by Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos), the Senate resolved that the Federal Government should intervene by providing emergency fund to open up new channels in various parts of the state, which bear the burden of incessant flood." Defending the motion, Obanikoro asked his colleagues to help save lives in Lagos, the economic nerve centre of Nigeria. The lawmaker disclosed that by the United Nations and World Bank estimates, "Lagos needs N4.5 billion yearly to maintain its drainage network." In his contribution, the Senate Majority Whip, Mr. Victor Oyofo suggested that the state government should enforce building standards and ensure that violators of the appropriate regulations should have their structures pulled down. Senate President Adolphus Wabara said that the President should be approached to lend Lagos the kind of support he gave the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam Nasir El-Rufai to pull down illegal structures. Senator Ike Ekweremadu (Enugu) was of the view that flooding in Lagos had become an embarrassment to the entire nation. He declared that the federal government might have to consider declaration of state of emergency in Lagos. But Senator Olurunnimbe Mamora was quick in telling his colleagues that Ekweremadu meant to say that Lagos deserved to be declared a disaster area and not a state of emergency. Mamora argued that the withholding of local councils funds by the government had greatly incapacitated Lagos local councils in carrying out their duties of drainage maintenance and refuse disposal. � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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