The Kano State Emergency Relief and
Rehabilitation Agency on Friday said that three persons lost their lives
as a result of flood in the state in 2016.
The Executive Secretary of the agency,
Alhaji Aliyu Bashir, said that the figure contradicts the earlier one
given by the Northwest zone of the National Emergency Management Agency
which put the number of deaths at 18.
Bashir said no fewer than 3, 500 houses
were destroyed by flood between July and August, while food and cash
crops worth millions of Naira were washed away by the flood during the
period.
He said the nine local government areas
were ravaged by flood this year including: Bebeji, Dawakin Kudu, Kiru,
Shanono, Bagwai, Garun-Malam, Kano Municipal, Bichi and Takai.
He said officials of the agency had
since visited all the affected areas with a view to assessing the damage
caused by the disaster.
He explained that the agency would
compile a comprehensive report on the disaster for onward submission to
the state government and the National Emergency Management Agency for
necessary assistance to the victims.
The executive secretary disclosed that
the state government had recently released N2.9 million for the
disbursement to victims of flood disaster in Warawa local government
area of the state.
Bashir said the government had to immediately assist the flood victims in Warawa because of the magnitude of the disaster.
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