PRESIDENTIAL Committee on flood relief and rehabilitation in which Aliko Dangote is the chairman has supported the victims of the recent flood disaster in Benue State with the sum of N250 million as relief assistance. The committee also the release of one IDP Hostel already completed by the committee in Benue State to provide temporary shelter for some of the displaced persons, Also, in response to the request by the Benue State government, in response to the request by the Benue State government.
It would be recalled that more than 110,000 persons in 24 communities, including Makurdi, have been displaced by the flood in Benue State. In a statement made available to vigil360, on Sunday, stated that the committee had earlier built hostels for Internally Displaced Persons in the State.
Boniface Ortese, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, who disclosed this recently said over 2,769 households were also affected. He explained that places affected included Achusa, Idye, Wurukum Market, Genabe, Industrial Layout, Demekpe, Wadata Market, Katungu, behind the Civil Service Commission, Agboughul-Wadata among others in Makurdi.
“In Achusa, 200 houses were affected with 5,125 persons displaced. In Idye, 217 houses with 5,200 persons displaced. Also, behind the Civil Service Commission, 200 houses were submerged in flood and 5,777 persons were displaced.” At Genabe, 200 houses were affected with 5,021 persons displaced, 218 houses around the Wurukum Market were affected with 1,000 persons displaced, and at Wadata Market, 150 houses were affected and 4,300 persons were displaced.”
Meanwhile, the Dangote- led presidential committee also revealed that it has also donated the sum of N150,000,000 (in kind) to provide relief assistance to flood victims in Anambra State.
It also released the sum of sum of N118,000,000.00 to NEMA to augment the N1.6 billion released by the federal government for procurement of food and non-food relief materials in aid of the flood victims in the following 16 states viz Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Abuja FCT, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Niger, Ondo, Oyo, Plateau and Sokoto.
The committee further revealed that it is currently implementing various projects in the 24 States that were affected by the 2012 nation-wide floods.
