Assessing the extent of the damage in parts of Calabar South, the Director General of Cross River State Emergency Management Agency , Mr Princewill Ayim, said most of the houses affected were erected along the waterways.
He said residents of the affected areas have been temporarily displaced from their homes due to the flood. He said that although no life was lost in the flood, economic and farming activities had been affected and properties worth millions of naira destroyed. “At Anantigha Street in Calabar South, over 5 farmlands were destroyed by the flood and the farmers can no longer harvest their crops because most of the crops like maize and cassava were uprooted by the flood prematurely.
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