The Jigawa state government Wednesday said 16 people lost their lives in different locations while over 3,936 households were submerged in a flood across the 10 affected local government areas of the state.
This was announced by the executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Haruna Mairiga , while addressing reporters in his office over the recent devastating flood across the state.
He further stated that over 3, 834 individuals had lost their houses and belongings that are yet to be quantified in terms of monetary value.
He said the most worrisome part of the problem is that about 2,734 hactres of Farm lands were also lost across the affected communities in the state.
“Some of these communities were about to start harvesting their rice, when this ugly incident happened. It was not expected.
“The state governor is doing his best to assist the affected people in the affected communities across the 10 local government areas.
“To stop the flood from its devastating havocs across our communities, the state government has planned to construct more dams in all the flood prone areas in the state.
“A committee has already been set up along with the Appeal Fund raising committee. And the governor asked us to take the available relief materials to all the affected places and victims,” he said.
Mairiga also stated that the state government has more than enough relief materials for the affected victims in its stores and ware houses.
He added that though some of the stores were looted by the protesters during the hunger protest and the ones in Hedejia and Gumel local governments were vandalised.
He said the 16 lives lost were in different areas and different circumstances, while there are about 10 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state.
