{"id":43532,"date":"2020-10-01T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=43532"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:21:46","slug":"flooding-submerge-7619-house-displaces-about-17562-persons-in-niger-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/flooding-submerge-7619-house-displaces-about-17562-persons-in-niger-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding Submerge 7,619 House, Displaces About 17,562 Persons In Niger State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;As Gov. calls for establishment of &#8220;Special Intervention Fund&#8217; for States affected by Perennial flooding<\/p>\n<p>Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State\u00a0\u00a0 has called for emergency measure by the Federal Government in form of Special Intervention Fund that will assist states ravaged by flood and the consequential effect of the spillage of Kainji, Shiroro, and Jebba Hydro Power Dams.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8983\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8983\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Flood-Destroys-Farmland-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Flood-Destroys-Farmland-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Flood-Destroys-Farmland.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photos of rice farms destroyed by flood in Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking to Journalists in Minna, the Governor disclosed that no fewer than 63,571 individuals in about 150 Villages, across 20 out of the 25 local government areas of the state as well as 7,619 houses have been submerged and about 15,562 people displaced from their original places of abode by the black\u00a0 flood, stressing that the spillover from the dams were largely responsible for the disaster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He stated further\u00a0 that the flood has not only washed away the N80 billion investment by the Sunti Sugar Company and rendered the staff and hundreds of Farmers jobless in the state, but that many people have lost their lives as a result of the flood disaster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Governor Sani Bello said the damage caused by the flood was beyond the capacity of the State government to handle, hence the call for urgent intervention from the Federal Government and International agencies.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The flood has been excessive this year. Definitely, a lot of support will be required to assist those communities because they&#8217;ve lost their means of\u00a0 livelihood completely. It is our responsibility to do whatever we can, no matter how little, to support them&#8221;, he stated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Governor Sani Bello further attributed this year&#8217;s flooding in the state, to the opening of the spillway gates of the Kainji Dam, which he said was spilling over 6,000 metric litres of water per second noting that it was first of such action in the history of the State.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Governor also called on the federal government to energize the Hydro Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) by making it functional\u00a0 adding, that doing so will reduce the hardships\u00a0 faced by the states affected by perennial flooding.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I am in consultation with my colleagues in Kwara, Kebbi and Kogi States, on how to ensure the immediate take-off of the commission and we will not relent until HYPPADEC becomes operationally functional&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State\u00a0\u00a0 has called for emergency measure by the Federal Government in form of Special Intervention Fund that will assist states ravaged by flood and the consequential effect of the spillage of Kainji, Shiroro, and Jebba Hydro Power Dams.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2389,772],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-43532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-flooding","tag-niger-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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