Eight persons have been killed and about one million
displaced from their home in Kogi State by the recent flooding that have
ravage the state due to the release of Kainji and Shiroro dams of the
River Niger, an official said on Monday.
The Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
operations in Abuja, Ishaya Isah, who in company of some members of the
National Assembly from Kogi West visited one of the relieve camp in
Lokoja, confirmed that about eight persons have lost their lives as a
result of the flood while over 332 communities were washed away by the
flood.
“About nine local governments were affected by the waters and over
332 communities have suffered this devastation of the flood. People lost
their household utensils, their houses and over 70 percent of them lost
all their farm products,” he said.
Mr Isah said that the eight persons that died were killed when a boat
cap sided in Banda, a community which is about ten minutes’ drive away
from Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
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