Rep donates relief materials worth N3.2m to Jigawa flood victims
Donation
By Nabilu Balarabe
Kirikasamma (Jigawa), Sept. 26, 2018(NAN) Alhaji Abubakar Hassan-Fulata, the lawmaker representing Kirikasamma/Guri/Birniwa of Jigawa in the House of Representatives, has donated relief materials worth N3.2 million to victims of flooding in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that victims were from Kirikasamma and Guri Local Government Areas (LGA) of the state.
Hassan-Fulata presented some of the items to Alhaji Salisu Kubayo, the Kirikasamma LGA Chairman at a ceremony on Wednesday in Kirikasamma.
He advised Kubayo to constitute a committee towards distributing the items to the victims.
Items donated included 100 bags of gari, 10 bags of sugar and 10 bags of groundnut cake among others.
The lawmaker also promised to notify the Federal Government about the disaster for more intervention.
Receiving the items Kubayo promised to be just and fair in the distribution.
He said farm produce and property worth over N500 million were lost in the flood which ravaged about 50 communities.
Kubayo commended the lawmaker for his usual quick response to emergencies in the area, and prayed God to give him the strength and health to continue serving his people effectively. (NAN)
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Edited by Ali Baba-Inuwa