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Flood: Senate urges NEMA, others to help victims in Jigawa state

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The Senate yesterday directed the National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA) and other relevant agencies to as a matter of urgency, provide urgent humanitarian assistance to affected flood victims in Jigawa state and other parts of the country.

The Senate has also asked all the relevant disaster management agencies to provide timely early warning to flood prone areas with a view to forestalling  loss of lives and property in affected areas .

Resolutions of the Senate were sequel to a motion titled ‘Urgent Need for Humanitarian Support and Assistance to Victims of Flooding Across the Country’, especially Jigawa State and sponsored   by Senator Danladi Abdullahi  Sankara,  APC , Jigawa,  North West on recent  tragic flood incidences that happened in several communities in Jigawa State .

In his remarks, Senator Sankara who  lamented that over 1500 houses of residents in Ringim, Kazaure , Gumel Dutse and Hadejia Emirates in Jigawa State were washed away with attendant loss of about 100 lives, said  that thousands of persons including women and children were displaced and rendered homeless .

He said, ” Major parts of the affected local government areas are still submerged with the state emergency response agency not being able to handle the disaster.

“If urgent medical and humanitarian assistance are not deployed to the affected victims , a major health challenge may result from the disaster”.

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