Director General of Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency, Zachary Allumaga, has declared that at least 60 houses and several properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in a separate flood disaster in the state.
Allumaga disclosed this on Saturday, while speaking with Journalists in Lafia, noting that flood incidents in two Local Government Areas of Lafia and Toto in the month of August 2023 left several people homeless while other valuables belonging to the affected victims were destroyed.
DG explained that the flood incident in Lafia local government ravaged the Federal University of Lafia off campus where students’ quarters were submerged and property such as computers, mattresses, books food items and other valuables were destroyed as worst hit.
Allumaga further said another flood was recorded in the Toto Local Government Area of the state, where about 60 houses were submerged and several properties destroyed.
While noting that flooding in Toto was a result of gully erosion where water passed through to destroy property and left several houses collapsed, the NASEMA DG stressed that plans have been put in place to provide relief materials to the affected community in Toto and Federal University off-campus in Lafia respectively.
He assured that the Agency would not relent in it’s determined effort in carrying out its mandate of preventing, and mitigating disasters through awareness creation, evacuation of victims and provision of relief materials for victims of disasters.
“The agency had at the commencement of rainy season, embarked on sensitisation of communities living in high prone areas of River Benue and other flood flash point local government areas to remind the residents of the danger pose by flood”.
He then admonished the people of the state to strictly comply with flood predictions by Nigeria Meteorological Agency NiMet and National Emergency Management Agency by avoiding farming, building on water ways in the state.
