About 1, 000 households affected by flood in the year 2020 in Adamawa State are to benefit from the intervention of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.
The agency has flagged off its distribution of food and non-food items, as well as building materials, to the victims.
In the year 2020, eleven local government areas were devastated by flooding.
The communities of Demsa, Fufore, Girei, Ganye, Numan, Lamurde, Mayo-Belwa, Song, Toungo, Yola North and Yola South Local Government Areas, yearly record flooding, sometimes with loss of lives and property worth millions of Naira.
Residents of these areas have been advised by the government to relocate to safer environment, but the people are yet to move.
The agency’s Head of Operations for Adamawa and Taraba Office, Iliya Midala, said the distribution was delayed as a result of the Endsars protests, during which NEMA relief materials were looted.
The Vice Chairman, Yola South Local Government Area, Elisha Kefas, expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for the intervention.
He gives reasons why the victims of the perpetual flooding have refused to vacate the flood prone areas.
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The relief materials comprised food and non-food items and building materials.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
