Environmentalists have urged governments to guarantee good use of ecological funding after the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) issued forecasts of more severe flooding this year.
They complained that the country’s environmental funding had not previously been adequately accounted for. They encourage people to start querying the funds as a result.
This was expressed by Mike Karikpo, the country director of Natural Justice, during a weekend training session on environmental human rights for journalists in the Niger Delta region in Port Harcourt.
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The ecological fund will help states prepare for this particular process, but they are not using it for that purpose; that fund has been immersed in corruption and unaccountability. We need to rescue that fund as a people and be sure the government is putting it to work for communities that are impacted with climate crises.”
Based on the flooding warnings by NIMET, the environmental expert said that government at all levels need to be proactive to nipping the challenge in the bud. He regretted that governments appear unconcerned till date.
Story adapted from The Guardian
