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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
President Muhammadu Buhari and flooded atmosphere
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday blamed buildings on water channels, disregard for early warning by the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company, NEMA, and the adjustments to climate attributable to local weather change as being the most important causes of the floods throughout the nation.
He famous that the floods had up to now hit 33 of the nation’s 36 states, in addition to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which has not been spared both.
Floods attributable to torrential rainfall and poor drainage have swept by way of huge landmass, submerging and consuming lives, farms and properties alongside its course.
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Catastrophe Administration on Tuesday stated that “over 1.4 million individuals have been displaced, about 500 individuals have been reported lifeless… and 1,546 individuals have been injured.”
Rhoda Ishaku Iliya, the ministry’s spokesperson in a press release added that,”Equally, 45,249 homes have been completely broken… whereas 70,566 hectares of farmlands have been fully destroyed.”
Expressing unhappiness on the devastation attributable to flood in Bayelsa, the president additionally directed all involved to work for the restoration of normalcy all through the affected elements of the federation.
The Bayelsa State authorities says 700,000 individuals have been displaced in about 300 communities and villages in 5 of the state’s eight native authorities areas that have been submerged in water attributable to rains inflicting the floods.
The president, in a press release by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja prolonged the nation’s condolences to the households of the victims and all these affected by the pure catastrophe.
Mr Shehu quoted the president as directing that every one federal businesses coping with rescue and catastrophe administration provide all wanted help to Bayelsa because the authorities within the state continued to take steps to assist folks hit by the floods.
(NAN)
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