The Federal Government has clarified widespread reports about an agreement with Cameroon regarding the construction of a dam in order to control the flow of water from the Benue River.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, at the Budget Defence with the Senate Committee on Water Resources, in Abuja, stated that there was no record of such an agreement, but that there are engineering problems as the government constructs the Dasin Dam to reduce floods from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon.
Adamu claimed that it took Cameroon up to 24 hours to notify Nigeria of the Lagos Dam’s water release.
