Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Devastating flood in Yobe state



Alhaji Musa Jidawa, the Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, on Wednesday, said that more than 300 houses, farmlands and domesticated animals were wrecked by surge in Jakusko and Adaya people group. Jidawa said, "We got report of more than 250 houses crushed in Jakusko and a
round 54 others in Adaya yet no life was lost. The influenced individuals are bringing cover with relations in the groups." The official secretary included that the state government had given sustenance, garments and building materials to the casualties to help them resettle. Jidawa said that the organization had left on edification crusade, encouraging groups on conduits to abandon the water courses to maintain a strategic distance from catastrophe. He said, "There are early cautioning signals showing surge in a few states, including Yobe, we have along these lines tended to surge inclined groups to empty the water way. "There are groups that have endured flooding in numerous years; we are as yet approaching these groups to leave the conduits." As per the official secretary, Ngelzarma, Jajere, Nangere, Buduwa, Nguru, Gashua, Damagum, Dapchi and a few groups in Tarmuwa experience flooding verging on consistently. He asked inhabitants of towns and towns to clear waste and abstain from developing structures or dumping decline in a manner that it would hinder the conduits. "There will be less surges on the off chance that we make space with the expectation of complimentary stream of water in our groups." Two unidentified cadavers of young men were as of late recouped by anglers from stream Nguru.

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