Flood-Ravaged Delta State Spends N163million On Flood Control, N1.5billion On Government Quarters, VIP Guest House

A SaharaReporters' review of the Delta State budget performance documents has shown that the state spent abysmally low on erosion and flood control.

This development is despite the fact that ravaging floods sacked many communities.

The review showed that the state spent N10million under the line item erosion and flood control in the first nine months of 2024. 

This is despite budgeting N799 million for erosion and flood control for the whole of 2024.

A further review showed that the state planned to spend N1 billion under a line item “flood control for the state”, it however only spent N153 million between January and September 2024.

The state budgeted N20 million for flood control measures at Oghara but did not spend any amount in the first nine months of 2024. 

Desilting of internal drains in the state stood at N84 million but nothing was spent by the state between January and September.

This would mean that addition of the N10 million spent under the tag of “flood and erosion control” and the N153 million spent under description “flood control for state” equals N163 million. 

While the state government spent only N153 million on “flood control for the state”, it spent N1.2 billion for construction/expansion of government quarters, construction/maintenance of VIP guest house in Asaba gulped N321 million. These totals N1.5 billion. 

SaharaReporters earlier reported that residents in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State had been rendered homeless.

This was even as schools, farms and business places have been submerged by flood that ravaged several communities in the area.

Properties worth several millions of naira have been destroyed at Araya, Uzere, Igbide, Okpolo-Enhwe, Enhwe and other communities in the council following the flood that has ravaged the area thereby making life more hard and difficult for the people.