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The Bayelsa State
government has ordered the relocation of Community Secondary School,
Sagbama after the massive flooding of the school premises.

The commissioner
for education, Josephine Ezonbodor, said on Tuesday during an
assessment tour of the school that the decision to relocate the school
was a stop gap aimed at alleviating the suffering of the students.

Mrs. Ezonbodor
noted that the relocation to a primary school was just until the
government finds a permanent solution to the perennial flood in the
school.

She also warned the
school principal and teachers not to abandon their duty posts on
account of the flood and directed the principal to forward names of
defaulting teachers to her office.

Responding, the
principal, Nanakumo Peter, thanked the commissioner for her prompt
visit to the school and assured her that the staff of the school will
continue to teach in spite of the flood.

Meanwhile, the
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, located on the Zarama axis
of the East/West road in Bayelsa has also been flooded following a
downpour.

A News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited the airport on Tuesday reports
that the site has virtually been taken over by flood as villagers now
fish in the bushy site.

The site, which has
been left fallow for several months, has become a grazing ground for
cattle rearers, and reptiles which has turned it into a comfortable
home.

The flood at the
airport site made the villagers and other fishermen in the community to
start fishing in the stagnant water to feed their families.

An indigene of Zarama, who simply gave his name as Okorie, told NAN that the airport has been flooded for about two months now.

When the community
discovered that fish now thrive in the stagnant pond, the villagers
began to harvest them since work had been abandoned at the site for
some time, Okorie said.