Flood kills two, ravages 18 communities in Nasarawa

Two persons person died and 18 communities person been ravaged by flooding successful Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Nawani Aboki, confirmed the decease toll connected Monday successful Lafia, describing the catastrophe arsenic acold much terrible than mean seasonal flooding.

The Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency (NASEMA) had initially reported that much than 5,000 radical were displaced crossed 11 affected communities. However, Aboki said a consequent on-the-spot appraisal identified 7 further communities, bringing the full fig of affected communities to 18.

The commissioner did not supply a revised displacement fig for the expanded fig of affected communities.

Aboki said Governor Abdullahi Sule had directed NASEMA to behaviour a broad appraisal of each affected areas and taxable a study to usher the government's response.

“The Governor sent the Executive Secretary of the humanitarian bureau to sojourn each the communities. He is moving connected a report. We anticipation authorities volition instrumentality factual enactment this week,” Aboki said.

He added that the authorities authorities was mobilising alleviation materials to enactment flood victims and forestall imaginable illness outbreak...