Following the devastating floods that crippled activities in Biseni Kingdom in Bayelsa State, thousands of displaced residents have found a new home atop a bridge, writes SAMUEL ESE Residents of Biseni kingdom in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State have erected makeshift structures on a bridge linking the community due to the rising flood water which has displaced them. Schools, homes, health centres, churches, farmlands, businesses and the road linking the kingdom have been submerged for several days without any relief material or assistance from the government, the residents told The PUNCH. Even the house of the Chairman, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bulodisiye Ndiwari, was not spared in the flood that defied the state government’s expectations.
The Bayelsa State Directorate of Flood and Erosion Control had said this year’s flood would not be as devastating as that of 2022 and concentrated efforts in clearing water channels in the capital, Yenagoa. Recently, during the state’s annual thanksgiving service, Governor Douye Diri had expressed appreciation to God that this year’s flood was not as devastating as that of 2022. But the governor may have been left shattered after houses in Biseni Kingdom and other parts of the state were submerged in one of most devastating floods ever seen by residents.
Traumatised by their plight the residents of Kilama, Perebiri-Ayahkumo, Egbebiri and Tuburu communities, all in Biseni Kingdom, sent a save-our-soul message to th.
