The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, says the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon may commence full discharge of excess water if the region experiences heavy rainfall.
Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja during the National Emergency Coordination Forum meeting, he said Cameroon had commenced release of water from the dam at the rate of two hundred cubic meters per second which is about eighteen million cubic meter of water per day.
He said this might, within days, cause flooding in Nigerian states along the River Benue, including Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Anambra, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa.
He, however, urged state governments to evacuate people at the disaster-prone areas to safer areas.
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