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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has said that no fewer than 18,406 people in 14 local government areas of the state have been displaced by flood. The Director-General of the Agency, Yabawa Kolo stated this in a chat with reporters in Maiduguri yesterday.
She listed the affected areas to include Shani, Kwaya Kusar, Biu, Damboa, Askira Uba, Chibok, Kaga, Dikwa, Maiduguri, Monguno, Jere, Mobbar, Gwoza, Monguno and Kala Balge, among others.
The SEMA boss said the damage assessment exercise conducted in Monguno and Kala Balve local government areas showed that the flood submerged farmlands, displaced 1,735 people, destroyed 681shelters and 112 toilet facilities at the GGSS, NRC and Gana Ali Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps.
Yabawa said the state’s flood response committee, headed by the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Usman Kadafur, has been working to assist the victims of the disaster.
(thenationonlineng.net)
