5 WOMEN GAVE BIRTH AT ZAMFARA FLOOD DISASTER TEMPORARY CAMP. Zamfara State government has taken over the feeding and medication of over two thousand households relocated from Gutsura to gyalange after the last week flood disaster which destroyed over five hundred houses in the area. Governor’s Special Adviser on Emergency Management Engineer Musa Kwatarkwashi stated the development while briefing News Men with update on the situation report at the temporary camp set up for the displaced people by the state government. The negative effects of the last week flood disaster in gutsura community of Gummi local government area of Zamfara State continue to generate difficulties among the displaced victims especially women and children as they are left at the mercy of the humanitarian aid offered to them by the officials of the State Emergency Management Agency and other well-wishers who associate with them over the ugly incident. News Men reliably gathered that most women and children who have been relocated to the temporary camp in gyalange are either suffering from one form of illness or the other while about five women have delivered at the new camp while majority of the school aged children have stop going to school since the town was finally taken over by the flood. Despite provision of the three square meals by the state government to each of the affected victim, source at ZEMA informed News Men that majority are suffering from food shortage while external assistance from well-to-do individuals and well-wishers to these people is still very low. Special Adviser to Zamfara State governor on Emergency Management Engineer Musa Kwatarkwashi explained that, based on the directives by the state Acting Governor Alh Sanusi Garba Rikiji, they have successfully relocated all the affected victims to the new temporary camp at gyalange and the number of those relocated have raise to over two thousand. He added that, hundreds of bags of assorted grains have been purchased by the state government to take charge of the feeding of the affected victim On the issue of providing an alternative place to establish new permanent structures for the affected victim, the Special Adviser noted that, effort has been intensified by the agency in conjunction with Gummi Local Government Council to secure some hecters of land, paid compensation to the owners and build new structures for the people so that they can be re-united for their normal activities. As at now, the entire gutsura which is a settlement of over three thousand communities have been taken over by the flood while visitors and sympathizers are being floated to the destroyed community through the use of locally made canoe.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:30:07 +0000
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