Flood, tears as Cross River overflows

Guardian

12 August 2011

Flood, tears as Cross River overflows .

.2,000 displaced, farmlands washed away as River Cross overflows following heavy rains

WHAT many in Calabar , the Cross River State capital and its satellite communities feared , has unfortunately come to pass  at last.

With rain relentlessly pounding Calabar, the Cross River State capital, almost continually for three weeks,  the river  after which the state is named  overflowed its banks, leaving in its trail tales of woe.

Most specially hit are Ikom and other towns around where the attendant destruction of houses and farms are estimated in tens of millions of naira.

The overflow delivered a devastating blow  on Ikom and communities around where over 200 homes have been submerged and over 2000 farm lands  of crops like yams, okra, melon, cocoyam and cassava laid waste.