{"id":11806,"date":"2018-09-10T22:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:03:32","slug":"looming-flood-disaster-bayelsa-sets-up-emergency-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11806","title":{"rendered":"Looming flood disaster: Bayelsa sets up emergency lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-8678136646629248093\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div 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dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Bayelsa State Government has established some dedicated call lines to enable residents in the state report cases of high-water level in their areas that could lead to flooding.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The mobile numbers are\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:08025814636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">08025814636<\/a>,\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:08110413567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">08110413567<\/a>\u00a0<wbr \/>and\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:09037582261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">09037582261<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The development is coming on the heels of the alert issued by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHSA), that nine states including Bayelsa on the axis of River Niger and three others on the River Benue axis were set to experience floods.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The government in a joint statement issued on Monday by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson and Environment, Ebipatei\u00a0 Apaingolo, said the emergency call lines will be open 24 hours, every day of the week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The government told Bayelsans to take advantage of the mobile numbers to report flood cases and also support government&#8217;s effort by keeping their immediate environment clean and open up drains within their vicinity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement added that monitoring teams will be set up soon to go round the state to monitor flood prone areas and also respond swiftly to any emergency situation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the statement, the government is partnering with relevant stakeholders and experts including the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to ensure that the situation if it occurs is put under control and insisted that there is no reason to panic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The government maintained that the proactive measures are geared towards preventing any reoccurrence of the 2012 flood disaster in the state, &#8220;even though floods are natural disasters and inevitable&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement recalled that the 2012 flood disaster was one of the biggest challenge of the Restoration Government but it rose to it, as Governor Seriake Dickson spared no effort to ensure that the state was not consumed by the disaster.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement averred that Governor Dickson has mandated the Ministry of Information and Orientation and that of Environment to carry out the task of coordinating sensitization and monitoring efforts to safeguard residents and called on every one to play their own 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Bayelsa State Government has established some dedicated call lines to enable residents in the state report cases of high-water level in their areas that could lead to flooding. The mobile numbers are\u00a008025814636,\u00a008110413567\u00a0and\u00a009037582261. The development is coming on the heels of the alert issued by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHSA), that nine states including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}