Nigeria: 31,000 families affected by flood in Yobe – SEMA

Nigeria: 31,000 families affected by flood in Yobe – SEMA

By: Our Reporter

The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), on Wednesday said about 31, 000 families were affected by flood, while 6,592 residents were displaced in various communities across the 17 local government in the state.

Yobe, a state in the northeast region which have been battling with Boko Haram insurgency’ have also this year recorded high number of displaced persons as a result of flood.

Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Mohammed Goje, in a press briefing in Damaturu, said the 255 communities affected are sited along Rivers Komadugu-Gana and Yobe banks and flood plains in the state.

He stressed that heavy downpours of rain between May and September resulted in flooding of 255 communities across the state.

According to him, the two-month rainfall led to the deaths of five children in Gashua, displacement of people and destruction of houses, food items and 645 livestock worth millions of naira.

According to him, some of the affected communities to include Gashua, Jakusko, Geidam, Jumbam, Girgir, Dapchi, Mutai, Katarko and Bara in Gulani Council.

Goje said that the magnitude of the flood disaster is high and needs multi-sectorial and inter-agency intervention with robust resource mobilisation at state and council levels, because the magnitude of the flood is the worst in recent times in Yobe State.

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“These are to cushion hardships the flood victims are undergoing. The responses are to ensure that in times of such flooding, appropriate institutional processes and procedures, coordination and resources are in place.

“The mitigations against flooding are put in place to support the affected households and communities. The worst hit communities are Jakusko, Gashua, Jumbam and Mutai,” he noted.

On source of the flood, he said: “The state has unfortunately become the last destination of heavy floods from various dams and rivers in Nigeria, including the Lagdo dam in Cameroon.

“The water that flows from dams in Kano State through Hadejia settles in the Nguru wetlands, Bade and Jakusko communities, while the water that flows from the Jos Plateau to Bauchi to Kafin Zaki, Birnin Kudu and Kiyawa, Jama’are, Gamawa, Nangere, finally settles in Jakusko community in Yobe State.

Nigeria: 31,000 families affected by flood in Yobe – SEMA