His Highness, Amos Poubinafa, the traditional chief of Tungbo town in the Bayelsa region’s Sagbama Local Government Area, currently sleeps in his car after being driven out of his palace by flooding.
“I have been sleeping in my Toyota Sienna for two weeks since the flood ravaged the palace.
“It reached the knee level and made the palace uninhabitable,’’ the retired naval officer told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Tungbo.
He added that: “The car is the only safe place for me; the entire building is flooded and there is no safer place for me to sleep.
“My family has been relocated to Yenagoa. As the Captain on board (traditional ruler) this vessel, I cannot abandon my subjects to seek alternative abode outside the town.
“By my training as a naval officer, I am not expected to abandon the crew I am leading in my vessel. I am expected to be the last man standing”.
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Poubinafa also told NAN that the situation will be worse in 2022 because he will suffer more due to his inability to leave his subjects and relocate after the 2012 floods.
He requested help for the flood victims in Tungbo town from the National Emergency Management Agency, the Bayelsa Emergency Management Agency, and other well-meaning people.
To stop the country’s ongoing floods, he also urged the federal government to build dams and dredge the Rivers Niger and Benue.
The Federal Scones and Technical College, a coeducational institution founded in 2002 and situated on Sagbama-Tungbo Road, is housed in the Tungbo settlement.
Before assuming the king in 2002, Poubinafa left the Nigerian Navy as a lieutenant commander.
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