550 housing units for flood victims in Kwara, Delta and other states
The Federal Government has concluded plans s to build 550 housing units for flood victims in Kwara State and 21 other states ravaged by 2012 flooding, the Chairman, Committee on Flood, Relief and Rehabilitation, Alhaji Mohammed Dabarako, has said.
Revealing this at a media conference on the proactive efforts of the Kwara State Government to mitigate flooding in 2013 in Ilorin on Monday, Dabarako said some of the states to benefit from the FG housing units include Kogi, Delta, Bayelsa, Niger and other states where the impact of the 2012 flooding was devastating.
He stated that the state government had appealed to hydro-stations to regulate the release of water from the dams to avoid flooding. He suggested that the water could be released gradually when the dam was not filled up.
According to him, the committee had identified such areas as Patigi, Moro, Kaiama, Baruteen and Ilorin as some of the flood-prone areas.
Also speaking, the Special Adviser on Emergency and Relief Services to the Kwara state Governor, Musa Abdullahi, said the government had cleared virgin land, arranged for tents and mobile toilets and provided about N5m anti-flood epidemic drugs as a proactive measure against the impending flood and the associated health demands.
He added that the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, had made a provision of N10m for the construction of the tents and N7m for the mobile toilets.
He urged people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to safe areas and be more safety conscious.
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