Things not done that invite floods
Some of the houses sub-merged by flood in Niger Delta area. By Adekunle Adekoya AWAY from the agony of the just-ended strike by ASUU, Nigerians are faced with another existential threat, which is even more life-threatening. Come to think of it, what is not life-threatening in Nigeria, given the way public affairs are managed here? Is it the transport system, entrenched in the vice-grips of the basest elements of our society; or the environment, which nobody is paying attention to, despite the fact that we have commissioners and hundreds of civil servants manning the environment docket? Is it the food crisis (do our leaders recognise that we have a food crisis), triggered in the main by inability of our farmers to go to farms and cultivate crops that give us food to eat as a result of insecurity? And now, floods. Angry waters are flowing in any direction they see, perhaps in retaliation for our inaction, or inability to come to terms with our environment. Don’t misread me: floods occur ...