Flood: NEMA distributes relief items to 7,811 households in Bayelsa

By : NAN

Date: 25 August 2023 2:52pm WAT

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Naval boat with officials of Red Cross and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) arrive to rescue displaced residents of Ula-Ikata community submerged by flood at Ahoada district of Rivers State on October 22, 2022. - Flooding is frequent during Nigeria's rainy season but this year, more than 600 people have died and 1.3 million others were forced to leave their homes, according to the latest government figures. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief items to victims of the 2022 flood, as well as vulnerable persons in Bayelsa.

Mr Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General, NEMA, represented by Mr Justin Uwazuruonye, Head, Abuja Operations Office, NEMA, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Abuja.

He said that the distribution carried out in collaboration with the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency, was part of the first phase of the Special National Economic Livelihood Emergency Intervention of the Federal Government.

According to him, the Federal Government approved the items to assist the 7,811 households to cushion the effect of the flood disaster.

He said the items distributed included food and non-food items, such as tools for livelihood support, agriculture seedlings, rice, beans, vegetable oil and blankets.

Others are: Mattresses, Seedlings, Pesticides, Fertilisers, sewing machines, grinding machines and sprayers.
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