Councils affected by flood in Rivers State are frantically rescuing stranded residents, as flood rises above 14 feet. Chairman, Ahoada West Council, Hope Ikiriko, making the disclosure, yesterday...
Councils affected by flood in Rivers State are frantically rescuing stranded residents, as flood rises above 14 feet. Chairman, Ahoada West Council, Hope Ikiriko, making the disclosure, yesterday, described the situation as devastating and uninhabitable.
“All the roads leading to Ubie clan of Ahoada West are cut off. What we are doing now is rescue. We are on a rescue mission. We are going to rescue people, who hitherto never wanted to quit. It has been their tradition and they are not used to Internally Displaced Camps from time immemorial. Elderly people are all trapped in these villages. We have mobilised a rescue team to go and pick them out of these places and bring them to Ahoada East, where we can have a place for them to stay.
Addressing the people, he said: “We have just come to see you, and we are going back now to come back with resources that will give you immediate succour. But before we do that, I will want this crowd to be properly profiled. We want to know the number of people that are here so that as we are planning, we plan with proper statistics.
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