Jigawa Govt., philanthropist donate to 3,000 flood victims
Donation
By Nabilu Balarabe
Kaugama (Jigawa), Sept. 21, 2018 (NAN) Jigawa Government on Friday donated relief materials to over 3,000 flood victims taking shelter at Kaugama Local Government Area of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victims who were displaced by recent flood in Auyo, are in various camps in Dakaiyyawa, Yelleman and Hadin.
Distributing the relief materials to the displaced persons, Alhaji Aminu Usman, Acting Chairman, Jigawa Floods Victims Rehabilitation Committee, urged them to remain calm as the government was ready to support them.
He announced the donation 200 sacks of garri, 10 bags of sugar and 10 bags of groundnut cake to the displaced persons to cushion the effect of their suffering.
Also speaking, Alhaji Yusuf Bubura, the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), urged residents of Kaugama to erect sandbag embankments to prevent flooding.
He appealed to the residents to use the 5,000 empty sacks donated by the agency to erect embankments at Marke, Yelleman, Handin, Dakaiyyawa, Ciromawa and Yalo areas which are flood-prone.
The council Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Yahaya, also announced a donation of 50 tipper loads of sand and over 1,000 sacks for the embankment.
Responding on behalf of the victims, Hajiya Adama Iliya commended both the SEMA and the government state for the relief materials.
She expressed concern that their entire properties were destroyed by the flood.
She said that many of them were ill, possibly due to the contaminated water they had been drinking.
She appealed to the state government to provide shelter and medicines, to ease their suffering in the camps.
NAN reports that a philanthropist, Alhaji Makki Abubakar also donated N100,000 to the victims. (NAN)
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Edited by Maharazu Ahmed