Many Rendered Homeless As A Result Of Flood In Kogi State (Read More)Below!!!

Kogi State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has been stiff to the limit. The State Government is providing instant interventions within its financial capacity, but what government has been able to do is disgustingly inadequate. “Apart from Nataco, Sarkin Numa, Ganaja and other areas in Lokoja where floods have taken over communities; Ibaji communities are completely passing through the fury floods that have sacked people from their homes and farmlands.

Director General to the Kogi State Governor on Media and Publicity Kingsley Fanwo has called on Federal Authorities to come to the aid of Kogi State.

He said, “The state is in grim need of humanitarian interventions”. Further said thousands of houses were­­­­­ submerged by floods in some flood plains in Lokoja and Ibaji, describing the situation as “desperately pathetic”.

Some people are climbing trees to survive. “There is an urgent need to relocate the affected people and settle them in camps. We call on the National Emergency Management Agency to quickly come to our aid. “The State already has a situation room under the leadership of the Honourable Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources to collate the realities on ground. What we are getting at the moment is of frightening enormity that requires urgent attention”.

Roads have been taken over, people now sleep on the streets and nursing mothers are gory sights to behold. We call on Federal Agencies and the international community to quickly come to our aid”. He urged people still living in flooded homes to vacate the places, saying it is unsafe to continue to sleep in flooded apartments. Our reporters said truck loads of materials were delivered to the IDP Camp in Lokoja. The Honourable Commissioner for Environment and other top government officials have been working round the clock to attend to those displaced by the floods”.

The State Government is grateful to the National Emergency Management Agency for responding to the distress call of the government and people of Kogi State. Fanwo said the State Emergency Management Agency also expects aids from business outfits operating in the state and other non-governmental organizations. “We also express our profound gratitude to Mr. President for moving swiftly to provide for the needs of those rendered homeless by the Kogi floods.