78 houses and other properties destroyed by flood in Bauchi

No fewer than 78 houses, a filling station and a mosque have been destroyed, while hundreds of people have been rendered homeless, following heavy flood in Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
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Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, yesterday promptly visited the scene to sympathise with the victims.
“I have seen the level of damage. It is quite sad. We will ensure that relief  materials get to the victims as soon as possible.Abubakar directed the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to quickly move to the affected area to assess the level of damage and ensure that adequate care was promptly given to the victims.
“We will quickly ensure that contractors will start working on construction before paper work is carried out to avert future occurrence,” the governor said.
The Permanent Secretary of SEMA, Mohammed Garba, while giving an account of what happened, told newsmen in his office yesterday that the flood occurred as a result of heavy downpour.
Garba who said that no life was lost, explained that, “It happened in a street after Misau near Hardawa because of the  heavy inflow of water into a stream in the area.
“The heavy flow of water washed away two culverts causing the water to destroy most of the houses which were built near the water ways”
He said as soon as information reached them from the Nigerian Red Cross, Giade, SEMA quickly mobilised its men to the field to assess the level of damage with a view to sending relief materials to the victims.
The Permanent Secretary said that a situation report which would soon be submitted to the Secretary to the State Government had already been prepared.
“We have informed the NEMA Operations Office in Gombe and the Operation Officer will soon visit the area to make assessment and assured that relief materials would soon get to the victims”
On preventing a re-occurrence, Garba said that the flood was recurrent because of the topography of the area.
Garba said that people in the area need to be relocated as they face the risk of experiencing similar incidence due to poor soil.
He said in the meantime the agency had recommended to the government to redirect contractors to work on the Misau-Hardawa area to prevent the road from being cut off and other areas from being affected by flood in the future.
Source: Sun News

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