In Niger State, flood kills eight people and destroys homes, farmlands, and roads

By Adeleye Kunle

Minna – Within a month, flooding has claimed the lives of eight people in Niger State.

Aside from the lives lost, several houses, farmlands, link roads, and culverts were washed away.

The disaster struck seven of the state’s twenty-five local government areas. Rafi, Kontagora, Lavun, Wushishi, Mashegu, Magama, and Gbako are among the local governments affected.

Six people were killed in Magama, while another was killed in Rafi local government, according to our correspondent.

The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), which confirmed the development, added that it has increased efforts to educate people living both upstream and downstream about the need to temporarily leave their homes.

The Agency’s State Director General, Ahmed Ibrahim Inga, stated that the state has begun flood sensitization in advance of the rain and that it will not relent.

“We have continued to provide designed evolution that has responded to disaster occurrences, and as we battle with the reality of changing climate, and with the latest NiMet prediction of four days of heavy rainfall in five States of the Federation, including our State, we are not relenting in our efforts to sensitize people in the prone areas on the need for them to vacate their homes temporarily for more safe areas, we are not relenting in our efforts to sensitize people in the prone areas on the need for them to va

Inga stated that for the most part, they have directed the people of the state to clear all drainages and flush away stagnant water to avoid mosquito breeding, to use treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria, to turn off all electrical appliances when not in use and when leaving home, and to stop storing petrol or any inflammable item at home or shops to avoid fire outbreaks.

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