The Anambra State House of Assembly has summoned key government officials and commissioners to appear before it to discuss measures aimed at managing and preventing flood disasters across the state.
This is just as many houses, markets, business premises and farmlands located in flood-prone communities of the state have been submerged by flood following persistent rainfall, resulting in rising water levels from the River Niger.
The heavy flooding has left a trail of destruction at flood-prone communities in Ogbaru, Idemili North and Oyi LGAs where houses and markets such as Relief Market, Ochanja Market, Building Materials Market Ogidi, and parts of Onitsha, were among the worst-hit areas.
Some videos circulating online indicated that two persons were currently missing and feared drowned at the Building Materials Market, while the force of the raging flood had swept away some fences and left roads badly damaged.
Our correspondent, who visited the affected communities,
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