Flood Submerges 60 Communities In Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency(NSEMA) has disclosed that no fewer than 60 communities have been submerged by recent flooding in the state.

Head of the Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency,  Allu Maga, made this disclosure on Friday.

Maga said thousands of people had been displaced and valuables worth millions of naira were destroyed.

According to him, the affected communities were those along the bank of River Benue and that local residents were earlier warned about the impending disaster but refused to leave as it was their ancestral lands.

He added that the state government has begun the distribution of relief materials to the affected people.

States within central Nigeria had been witnessing heavy floods since August, as a result of a localized high-intensity rainfall accompanied by torrential winds, and massive run-off activities in streams and rivers.