Source: This Day

The Ekiti State government has stepped up efforts to avert the destruction of properties and lives in the state as a result of flooding and erosion. In preparedness to surmount the challenges of flooding, the Ekiti State Government has embarked on constructing bridges and dredging waterways.

The state Project Coordinator of a World Bank initiative, Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), Dr. AKinyemi Akinyugha, stated these in Ado Ekiti yesterday during a chat with journalists.

Akunyugha, also the Senior Special Assistant on Environment to the state Governor, Kayode Fayemi, said the government, through NEWMAP, would soon complete the construction of the Arinkin and Ajolagun bridges in Ikere and Oke Ako Ekiti respectively.