The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says the severe flooding in Maiduguri; capital city of Borno state has claimed at least 30 lives and displaced over 400,000 others.
It was learnt that the flooding was the worst to hit Maiduguri in 30 years and the city was the epicenter of insurgency for more than decade, and serves as the center for the responses to the humanitarian crisis in the Northeast.
NEMA official, Zubaida Umar said “we have 414,000 displaced people, and that the number could reach one million.
“The flood has taken over around 40 percent of the entire city. People have been forced out of their homes and are scattered everywhere.
“We have also sent our mobile clinics with medical supplies along with medical doctors from the military hospital to attend to the displaced in the camps who need medical care.
“This is important because the main hospital in Maiduguri has also been affected by the flood.
“We have provided canoes and fishermen who have been going into flooded communities and rescuing residents who are trapped.
“We have deployed our water trucks to provide clean water because we are concerned about the possible outbreak of water-borne diseases,” the official said.
Borno state governor Babagana Umara Zulum said after visiting one of the displacement camps that authorities had decided to give each household N10,000 and would be distributing food and non-food materials.
He said: “Authorities would need to rebuild and strengthen the dam.”
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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