The Benue State government has asked residents whose areas were affected by flood to move to a safer place.
This is after a12 hours downpour in Makurdi the Benue state capital, which cut off the Joseph Sarwan University Makurdi, JoSTUM from the rest of the town.
The rain which started at about 11pm Sunday night also left most parts of the state capital flooded sweeping away properties and valuables of many of the affected residents.
The worst hit areas of the town includes, Achusa, Gyado, Villa, Wurukum Market, Genabe Layout, Wadata Rice Mill, Agbohough, Agwan Jukun and Demekpe communities as well as the busy Otukpo and Ishaya Bakut Roads.
Meanwhile the SBS Junction road leading to the JoSTUM, formally the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, FUAM, was also not spared. The road was washed away at Ichwa and Antsa communities while some of the culverts on the about six kilometers road were either washed away or submerged.
The development left students, lecturers and workers of the institution stranded as they could not easily access the institution while those residing in the institution and nearby communities were left trapped.
The Benue State Government has therefore appealed to all those living in flood-prone communities to vacate to safer areas.
The State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, in a statement by the acting Executive Secretary, James Iorpuu also disclosed that the state government had designated public schools in 22 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the state as displaced persons camps to provide accommodation for flood victims in the state in the event of flooding of communities in the state.
