Just a week after it issued a warning,
the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has revealed that 18
persons lost their lives in floods, which affected 22 local government
areas (LGAs) of the state. The agency also said properties worth
millions of naira were destroyed by the floods.
According to a statement made on Saturday, NEMA North-west Zonal Coordinator, Musa Ilallah,
disclosed that the massive floods had ravaged the 22 LGAs in the last
two weeks.
He pointed out that, the properties including
houses and farmlands worth more than N700 million were also lost by
about 1,000 victims lost to the floods. “The worst affected local
government areas are Shanono, Bagwai, Kiru with 749 victims and N347
million worth of properties damaged.
The statement disclosed that, “the other
LGAs affected are Rano, Kibiya, Bunkure, Gabasawa, Dawakin Tofa, Kano
Municipal, Danbatta, Takai, Dawakin Kudu, Karaye, Rogo, Kura, Wudil,
Bichi, Sumaila, Garun Mallam, Ungogo, Bebeji and Warawa.”
Also, NEMA advised the communities along the
river Niger to evacuate immediately to safer ground over the likelihood
of floods that may occur at any moment.
Furthermore, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad
Sani Sidi, had received alerts of the flood from information given by
the authorities in the Republic of Niger that the present water level in
the river had reached a point that might result in the flood that could
be compared with the unfortunate experience of 2012.
Moreover, the NEMA zonal coordinator posited that a final
phase of the multi-stakeholders’ team of assessors comprising officials
from SEMA, NEMA, Red Cross, NSCDC and officials of the affected LGAs
will visit the worst ravaged 3 LGAs of Kiru, Shanono, Bagwai this week. THIS DAY
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