After a new flood calamity ripped through eight federal wards in Plateau State’s Kanam Local Government Area, no fewer than 850 homes were damaged.
Following a tour of the affected areas on Tuesday, Mohammed Yusuf, a representative of the Council Area’s Information and Protocol Unit, verified the situation to The PREMIER NEWS in Jos.
He said that the council has formed a commission to determine the degree of damage in the affected towns, saying that the rains that triggered the flood in the impacted communities lasted for roughly five days.
According to Yusuf, numerous residents were made homeless by the water, and numerous farmlands were also completely destroyed.
He claimed that the most severely impacted federal wards were Garga, Dengi, Jarmai, Gagdi, Kantana, Jom, Kunkyan, and Mumbutbo.
According to Yusuf, eight out of the fourteen federal wards in the Kanam Local Government Area have experienced flooding in the last five days, which has left huge devastation in its wake. We have visited some of the impacted neighborhoods, and the current state of affairs is regrettable given that the flood destroyed more than 200 homes in the Garga federal ward.
“More than 150 homes were also demolished in Dengi Ward, while more than 150 homes were also destroyed in Jarmai. Additionally, according to our statistics, 150 additional homes were destroyed in Kankyan Ward and over 200 total homes were demolished in Gagdi Ward.
Yusuf continued, “For the time being, we have not received reports of any fatalities, but we do have a number of residents that are presently displaced due to the flood disaster in the affected regions.
Following the flood calamity, the Local Government Council established a team. In order to assess the extent of the damage, the officials are still visiting the impacted areas. When they are finished with the job, I’m sure their report will be made public.
The official requested assistance from the state and the National Emergency Management Agency to lessen the suffering of the flood victims.
Delta riverine neighborhood
In a similar event, after the flood that inundated the hamlet, inhabitants of the Ayakoromo community in Delta State’s Burutu Local Government Area have pleaded with the state government to give them palliative care and to remove them to upland areas.
In a statement released on Monday and signed by the community’s chairman, Richard Momoh, copies of which were provided to journalists in Warri, called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, members of the Burutu Local Government Council, and other interventionist organizations like the Niger Delta Development Commission and the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission to take immediate action to help the community by rescuing people and property.
The statement bemoaned the fact that all academic activities in the riverine community’s schools had been put on hold since the rising flood had flooded the classrooms.
It also mentioned how farmlands had also sunk, which had a negative impact on the locals’ means of subsistence.
The statement added, “Residential buildings have been swamped by the storm, forcing house owners and the entire community to make a mandatory relocation.”
