PA GE 1Z-SUNDAYVANGUARD, OCTOBER7, Z012
NI ER STATE
11l communities, 663,000 persons affected • Opposition politician killed by falling tree -Twcl brothers washed away · Vicllims lobby to make camp site permanent 8YWOI.E-MOSAOO.\U
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N whal b emerging as a mmic r-liiIt to the nooding d!suter UI Niger State, some 01 the ~lctiml wbo are curre.nUy liheltered 111 camps in lOme p.lJ1a of the state ale lnslrting l)"at they would like to cont1nUIII Uvtng t.bete, Why' Abject JXNrrty1 Fqr the p~ple 01 Niger State in the put,..,., DDodlng bad be!u UmJled to communities alollg RJveu Niger and Kaduna e.pedaJ.ly affect1nii thote HviI)g dOWMtre.ftm of _ ... Karlland SbIrorowhich arelhe LI.n!e mullibilllan naira bydro leIe'1ridty generating statioRiln the st&te. tfuwefel, the rtoodlng of this yeru me.Otled toothercommunitits in to :wt parts of UM! state IncIJding Ow>cbaga. Bouo,
MURya. Shlroro, Borgu
rains to subside when a beavy tree: gave way to the rainstorm and feU on his car; smashing it - he died instanUy. Abo in 8cao Loca1 Government Area which ls a neighbouring local government to Cllancbaga. memben o(Cwoiboi'" family o(Gungd
\IUI.ege w. tIvuwn into mourning as two members of the family were washed away by Dood altll!l' a heavy downpour. The corpes of the deceased 'W'efe 1a&a ~ tUometen away from their area the following day Similarly, Zungeru. in
Wushiahi lDCal Government Area of the Itate also bad its own bitter experience of this years Ooodlng. Besides farmlands washed away. two ManJ herdsm~ were also washed away Wl1.b their (.'UW1:. W::Int hit lin! Mokwa and Lapai Local GoYemment Areas of the state where bves and farm produce were lc.t. MOIUy aUected are Aza. Mureg!. Zdagu. Egagi. Zdagu, Ket.o Kpashatu and t..en.ra.kta, aU in Moba Loca1 Govanment Area of the stale.. In Lapal. communities displaced are Eshlu, !(pataku, Dere, Egba, Reba. Achlba, Muye·Gbako, nakanabl, Ebwa and they want to be reloca1ed atlColu in Egba. Junction in 8lna area. Othen lin! Egya and Sokun who want to be relocated in NambataEbege area, Pelle. Rigido,
Edda, Gbami who want to be resettled at PuzIu area whtle Yawa. Yambabu. Koki. Begt andMumbucommwutieswanl to be relocated at Madalla
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Walkers at a car washing
cenlJe In Minna also watched
helplessly when four cars brought forwashing were submerged by the torrential ramIalljUit III valuable properti~ len in the vehldts were. either clamaged or wubed away in the presence or the vehicle
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In an interview with our correspondent. Dlrector Gen·
eral. Niger State Emergency Management Agency. NSEMA. Malam Mohammed Shaba, confirmed that almos t 665.000 people have been displaced from no rewer tbat 117 communiti~ in the Itate..
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't\\tIhilb.I. Molcwa. Bide EdaU and Laped. Bes1des the hwnan Uv~.
10it. properties worth
mllboM III naira were lost and lan:n
indudln~ animals procI~
ItA .t 1ut week. 49 lives had beeb loll leI the flood. 117 com· mUldties iisplaced with no iewt!t thru:l 663.000 people af· fedt!d. 1b! heavy ~ was complemented by e:u:en wa· ter rtieued from the three
bydro·elfctrldty Dams of Shiroro. Jtflba and Kainji in the pasl few weeU. 10 Minnl the state capItal. despite tbu multimillion naira drainage JYStem across the Clty O~iDg abo ravaged soa,e of tl.e communilies resull..tLg in the death 01 four P""I~e.
Mxe d~ utabng was a (am-
tty who
I1.1t two children -
Baslur; 12)"fllrs. and
Mustapha. IOyears - had their Livet tenninated when
tllq !lihll,ed into a Oowing drabageiJ froDloftheBahago Piau. In lbeThngaarea dwmg a htavy dt wnpour. n~ Legal Advaer to the leadmg op )(JCltion party In the sU1e!, Coni rea for Ptugreul.e Cbulge. CPC. Barrilter Jos"ph )(01 0, also dleJ mYS1Prlu ... ly dunng a dowr.-
pourtnhU 1J1Il.. Tboughhewu not 'Nub"lawayby Dood. his death Cibn e while U1 ha cn YIo'aJhng I n front of the gate ta tUJ; ltienc;!', house lor the heavy
KWARASTATE
N300m, One million hectres of rice, maize farmlands, gone ·86 communities sacked by flood • 'The last time this happened was 76yrs ago' magnitude or dJ T saster penultimate in Patigi. headquartefl of Patigi HE:
Dood
week
Local Government in the northern part of Kwara State was devastating to say the 1Patlgi. a rwal and agrarian' fishing commuruty is about three hours journey from llorin. the capttal or the state; only a nv~ separat~ it from the netghbounng Niger State. to the north. lhIgedy struck penultunate week when waters from Riv· ers Niger and Kaduna. coupled Wltb heavy raJ.C1all and theoverflowofJebba dam. caused d~utabng problem in the enlm! local government area LeaVlng In tts trail untold
lou~ in cash cro~, domestic animals. bouses, and other properttes: While the disuter lasted. residents of more than 70 communities in the area were displaced Just 41 16 communibes were completely lubmerged by the ravagmg Doods from both nvers SWldayVanguard'I V1D1 to the area revealed that about one million hectares of farmland of noeand large: nUl'llberol hectareI of mau.e worth more than N300
nuI.lJ.oo ~destrayed
Among the affected commurubes are Kpata-Q)aradogt. GWlJI-Saaci, GNIfun. Gakpan. Vuma. Elungi, Mawogl, among others During the VISit to the areas, Sunday Vanguard glllhered thai the last bme a dlS4.!liter of IUch mllgnltudeOttUm!d .... as
Ccmmu.nilies ucked by flood
lome 76 years ago Some of the Vlctuns of the flood were resettled at an outskutof Pabgl commuruty 00 a pJece of land gwen to them by the Etlu of Patigl; but. expectedly, their mood couldn't have bern any worse. Speahng WIth Sunday Van·
guard. the community leaders of GunJt-Saacl and Gbafun commwubes: who are: now at the resettlement cam p. located dose to another" nver WIth their (amLly membfts, laid It is the seventh time they are reloc.aung from 0Ilf' locabon to another due to Rood problem