The fear created by the surging flood visiting Lokoja, kogi State capital and its environs in recent days heightened on Sunday as the natural disaster blocked the Ganaja axis of Lokoja-Ganaja road,thus impeding free flow of vehicular and human movement.
Lokoja-Ganaja road is a strategic social and economic road linking the state to the eastern part of the country.
A Correspondent of The Reporters,an online publication, who visited the axis at about 3 30 p.m on Sunday reports that many passengers, some going to the eastern part of the country got stranded as their vehicle could not ply the road any more.
As result, canoe operators have commenced brisk business as they roll out their canoes to ferry passengers to and out of Ganaja village for onward journey to their various destinations.
Our investigation showed canoe operators have cashed in on the ugly development to charge transport of N50.000 for a trip of less than 500 metres.
Kogi State, which suffered heavy losses in terms of agrcultural produce as well as personal effects of the residents in the 2012 flood, is predicted by the National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA, to be one of the 13 states in Nigeria to be affected by flood in 2022.
The agency,therefore, warned residents living at the bank of River to relocate to safer places.
New Ganaja settlement, located along Lokoja-Ganaja road is not left out as some of its residents living close to River Niger have relocated to safer places as the flood came visiting their houses.
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