NEMA Donates Relief Materials to Flood Victims, Vulnerable Persons in Edo Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), yesterday donated relief materials to flood victims and the vulnerable
The National Emergency Management Agency , yesterday donated relief materials to flood victims and the vulnerable persons in Edo state.
“The donated items are in two categories. The first category is for the vulnerable as approved by the president while the second category is for those affected by flood in the three local governments in the state. She said the items for flood victims included rice, beans, maize, salt, vegetable oil, seasoning cubes, tin tomato, mats, mosquitoes net, toilets soap, guinea brocade, children and men’s wears.Receiving the items on behalf of Governor Godwin Obaseki, his Deputy, Philip Shaibu, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to muster the political will to dredge the river Niger as the only solution to the perennial flooding across the country.
According to him, until the river Niger was dredged, the nation would have to continually provide relief materials for the victims, saying dredging would drastically reduce the impact of the flood as only the normal flood would happen in the country.
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