Torrential rainfall submerges houses in Benue, renders many homeless

Several houses person been submerged and residents rendered stateless aft a dense downpour successful Achusa Community successful Makurdi, the Benue State capital, leaving down a way of demolition and hardship.

Residents described the flood arsenic 1 of the worst successful caller years, arsenic it sacked full households, destroyed spot worthy millions of naira and forced victims to instrumentality refuge connected higher grounds and with relatives.

Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, visited parts of the flood-affected country and dispatched a high-powered delegation to the affected assemblage for an on-the-spot appraisal to ascertain the grade of the damage, with a presumption to proffering a solution.

The delegation was led by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon. Chief Solomon Iorpev, alongside the Commissioner for Water Resources and Environment, Mr Odoh Ugwu; the Commissioner for Works and Housing, Mr Kuma Iyenge; and the General Manager of the Benue State Urban Development Board, Mr Ter Mede.

Speaking during the visit, Hon. Chief Iorpev said the Alia-led authorities was profoundly acrophobic astir the plight of the affected residents and assured them that decisive steps were being taken to code the perennial flooding successful Achusa.

He disclosed that Governor Hyacinth Alia, erstwhile helium visited the country a mates of days earlier, was visibly touched by the level of devastation and d...