Flooding: Council To Clear Drains

The Environment Department of the Bwari Area Council says it will embark on the clearing of drains this week to prevent flooding in the area.

The Head of the department, Mr Haruna Labaran, made this known while speaking yesterday, in Abuja.

“We will engage in the clearing of drainage in Bwari, Dutse and Kubwa to curb the menace of flooding in these areas.

“Emphasis is more on these areas because they are the most-flooded places in the council. Although we will still touch some areas in the clearing of drainage because we discovered that some areas don’t even have drainage at all.”

He said even though the amount to be spent on the exercise had not been ascertained, the clearing would cost the council a lot of money.

Labaran, who advised against the building of houses on drainage pipelines and dumping of refuse into drains.

He warned that perpetrators of such acts would have themselves to blame, if they did not heed the advice and decried the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drains behind the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp in Kubwa by residents of the area.

He further warned that violators of sanitation rules in the area would be tried by mobile courts, in collaboration with security agencies, to enforce good sanitation practices.