Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko
Ondo State government has threatened to demolish any building constructed on drainage channels across the state as a way of preventing flooding.
The state also said it was working with the Ecological Department in the Presidency and other agencies in the environmental sector to ensure the implementation of programmes and policies that could help prevent floods in the state.
The Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Chief Sola Ebiseni, stated this in Akure, the state capital, during the inspection of the channelisation project of the Ala River in Akure.
Ebiseni said, “Government has discovered that many people have not shown respect for the physical planning law of the state as they built indiscriminately.”
“Government will not hesitate to pull down any structure that is discovered to be obstructing free flow of water in the various rivers across the state and people should desist from building on water channels.
“It is unfortunate that our people have refused to show respect for the physical planning law and we have instructed our operators carrying out the dredging of the rivers that anywhere we find the blockade over the river we will pull down without any sentiment.
“But in some areas that are indigenous and traditional where there was not much physical planning when people started building, we will do as much as we can to ensure that we allow the river to have its free flow without too much collateral damage to such structures.”
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