Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has appealed to the Federal Government intervention agencies, private individuals and donor agencies to pay attention to communities ravaged by flood in the Niger Delta region and provide them succour.
Nabena who recalled attention given when a similar natural disaster occured in Borno state said the Niger Delta region urgently requires the same attention due to the ongoing devastating effects of the flood which has rendered many homeless, and destroyed several farmlands while lives have been lost.
In a statement issued in Abuja, the APC chieftain who incidentally is from Bayelsa state specifically appealed to the new Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Minister, Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, and the agencies like the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the National Commission for Refugees, among others not to close their eyes against the ongoing disaster in the region.
He noted that farmers in Bayelsa and Delta States are currently counting their losses as flood washed away their Cassava farms.
He declared that 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.
The statement reads in part: “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.
“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 capacity 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.”
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