Flood victims in Niger Delta region need govt support

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, said the people of the oil-rich Niger Delta region at the receiving end of the recent flood disaster are in dire need of support from the government and well mean Nigerians.

Nabena, in a statement in Abuja called on the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the National Commission for Refugees, among others not to do more in support of those affected by the disaster.

The APC chieftain said the region urgently required such attention due to ongoing devastating effects of the flood which has killed many people and destroyed several farmlands.

He said farmers in Bayelsa and Delta States are currently counting their loss as flood washed away their Cassava farms.

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The Bayelsa born APC chieftain said governments at all levels should not forget that all the waters causing disasters in the North and other regions choose to settle in the Niger Delta region, hence the need for more attention.

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“It has become necessary to appeal to the Federal Government, its donors and individuals who have donated to the recent flood disasters in the North-east to do the same for the Niger Delta region,” he said.

“In the recent times, several lives have been lost, property destroyed and large farmlands are totally washed away, rendering several people and communities homeless, jobless and all their sources of livelihoods destroyed.

“Although there are agencies of government in this region just like we have in the North-east, but the devastating effects of this disaster have far gone beyond the likes of Niger Delta Development Commission and others.

“I, hereby, call on the Federal Government, private individuals and donor agencies to urgently intervene to reduce to the minimum the negative effects of the recent flood disaster in our region.”