Tinubu Pledges to Tackle Perennial Flooding in Kogi, Benue States *More 1.3m children affected by flood in Nigeria, says Save the Children International *Declare national disaster in Nigeria, Catholic church tells F
*Declare national disaster in Nigeria, Catholic church tells FGAlex Enumah, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja
“Let me assure you that one of the very first things we will tackle is the perennial flooding in Kogi State. Flooding is a big problem in Kogi perhaps because of its strategic location as the confluence between Rivers Niger and Benue. On electricity supply, Tinubu stressed that with improved and increased megawatts of electricity, noting that his administration would generally work towards the industrialisation of the country.
The organisation in a statement issued yesterday and signed by its Global Director Child Poverty, Climate and Urban, Yolande Wright, also revealed that about 250 schools have been destroyed, while millions of people were forced to flee their homes. It said the five countries most affected by flooding with available Acute Food Insecurity Data all suffer from high levels of food insecurity, stressing that the countries were in the grips of a hunger crisis being accelerated by climate disasters.
It said it was supporting 36,000 children and 18,000 families in the most affected areas in six states of Jigawa, Benue, Borno, Yobe, Kogi, and Oyo.In a related development, the Catholic church in Nigeria has asked the federal government to declare the devastating flood that ravaged a lot of communities across country a national disaster.
In a letter, dated November 1, 2022, to the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria , Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, and signed by the trio: the Supreme Subordinate President, Major General Remy Uche, the Supreme subordinate Treasurer, Brig. Gen. Solomon Obeakameh and the Supreme subordinate Secretary, Brig. Gen. Cletus Ntong, the Order expressed “deep sympathy with all the victims of the flood disaster that recently ravaged many communities within our territorial Jurisdiction.
Besides seeking for aids, the body of Catholics also urged the federal government of Nigeria “to seek for ways and means to forestall future occurrence or a timeous arrest of the ravaging effect should the menace seem intractable.
Among the issues brought before the court for determination included, “Whether the discontinuity of the process of construction of the Datsin Hausa Dam in Adamawa State by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr.
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