The Rivers State Government says measures have been put in place to provide relief materials to cushion the effects of the flood that ravaged communities in Khana local government area.
The Commissioner for Environment, Tambari Sydney, said this during an on-the-spot assessment to ascertain the level of damage occasioned by the flood across communities in the area.
Most communities in Khana local government area including Bomu and Lenu were ravaged by the flood following a downpour, that rendered hundreds homeless with property, and farmlands destroyed.
The displaced victims who were seen packing out of their houses narrated their ordeal as the Commissioner defied the early morning rain to visit the communities to sympathise with them.
Sydney said he was not surprised by the flood disaster as the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, had earlier warned of the impeding floods in some local government areas of Rivers State, including Khana LGA.
He, however, assured the victims of the State Government’s commitment to ameliorating their sufferings and promised to collaborate with the Ministry of Health to provide drugs for the victims. This is in view of the health implications of flooding, especially with the high cases of cholera in the country.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
