Kano flood kills 13, displaces 13,226 – Official
No fewer than 13 persons lost their lives while 13,226 persons were displaced during the recent flooding that ravaged Kano State.
The Executive Secretary of the Kano State Emergency Management Agency, Saleh Jili, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kano late Monday.
Jili also said that a total of 14,364 farmers lost their farm produce during the disaster.
According to him, many victims of the flood were accommodated by their relatives and friends, as none of those affected by the flood stayed at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp.
He stated that though the state had a well-equipped IDP camp, most of the people that were affected by the flood did not stay there.
He noted that all the 44 local government areas of the state were affected by the flood, pointing out that it was only in the Warawa LGA that an entire community was flooded.
He, however, revealed that the victims were back to their homes within a short time, as soon as the water dried up.
He stated that before the commencement of rainfall, the state government had carried out sensitization of the people in the communities to the need to be wary of blocking drainages and waterways.
