Flood: Bayelsa Not Among 10 Most Hit States — Humanitarian Minister


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The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said yesterday that Bayelsa State ravaged by the flood was not among the 10 most hit states.

She said Jigawa State recorded the highest number of death and was number one of the states most affected by the disaster.

Yesterday, the Bayelsa State government accused the Federal Government of failing the state in response to the flood that devastated the state.

While the minister also speaking said her ministry was not aware of any $1 million donation or pledge by the United States as humanitarian aid for flood victims in Nigeria.

This is as she said the government has erected 44 temporary shelters in 22 states affected by the flood disaster and even evacuated those living within the areas that are prone to flood, adding that those who refused to heed the early warnings from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET, were most hit in the devastation.

However during her briefing session at the State House organised by the Presidential Communications Team, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,  Hajiya Farouq said relief materials had also been sent to Bayelsa State.

Her comments caused a stir as the Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF,  Edwin Clark, was reacting to her statement that as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, she was not humane over the treatment of areas hit by floods in Bayelsa and other parts of the South, she said it was Jigawa that is the most affected by the current floods.

Clark had said: “We have a humanitarian minister that is not humane, who was only active to carry out school feeding of school children who were confined to their homes during the Covid-19 lockdown.”

However, the minister said that there was a donation of N1.5 billion worth of foodstuff by the Dangote-led Flood Committee through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to be distributed to the affected persons.

She denied the allegation that relief materials meant for the downtrodden to ameliorate the effect of COVID-19 were looted and diverted and later discovered in personal warehouses.

 

 


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