Delta State farmers and traders residing within flood-prone areas in the state are warned to vacate immediately in their interest to avoid being caught up in an imminent flood disaster.

CEOAFRICA news desk learnt this warning was giving by Delta State Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Antonia Ashiedu, in Asaba, during the issuance of certificates to 108 cluster groups in Oshimili South Local Government Area of the state who benefited from the state government’s free-interest loan Micro Credit Programme, DMCP.

According to the report from Abari community in Patani Local Government Area of the state, coastal erosion has gradually started to wash away houses into the Forcados River as this year’s rain gathers momentum.

She said that the advice became necessary because a good number of clients of the programme were affected in last year’s national flood disaster, lamenting that some of them were either internally displaced or lost their wares to the flooding.