The National Emergency Management Agency has said that 104 persons have
lost their lives in the floods that have ravaged the North Central zone
of the country in the last two months.
NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Mr. Mohammed
Abdulsalam, who revealed this on Thursday said more than 50,000 people
had been displaced by the floods.
The North Central zone is made up of
Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa Niger, Plateau and Kwara states. Apart from the
North Central zone, massive flooding has also affected states in the
North Eastern states of Bauchi and Adamawa.
Abdulsalam said the majority of those
affected were women and children who were going through hardships that
required urgent intervention.
He said that the Federal Government,
through NEMA, had spent over N300m to purchase relief materials and
drugs, among others, to provide succour to the victims.
The coordinator said that the excessive
flooding being experienced in about 26 states of the federation was due
to the release of water from dams, opening of spill ways to release
excess waters, blockage of drainage system and heavy rainfall.
Also on Thursday, the National Emergency
Management Agency warned that over a million Nigerians could be killed
if a dam in Cameroun burst.
The agency made this known at the
presentation of a manual to prevent such an occurrence. The manual,
which was endorsed on Thursday at a ceremony in Abuja by stakeholders,
aims to put measures in place to mitigate flood waters from the lake
from affecting the people of Benue State.
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