THE State Government has opened 10 camps to accommodate Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by the flood in 19 out of 25 Local Government Areas of the state.
The Director-General of the State Orientation Bureau, Eugene Uzum, revealed this today in Asaba at a press briefing on the government’s efforts to save lives and property amid the ravaging flood across the state.
He said the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has also built two additional camps in the Warri axis and is also opening blocked drainages in the area to enable water flow so as to lessen the impact on the communities, as the situation has become so pathetic and worrisome that some of the affected communities had been invaded by reptiles.
Uzum also called on the Federal Government, corporate organisations and charitable individuals to come to the people’s aid and provide relief materials to ameliorate their sufferings at this auspicious time.
He stated that while the immediate intervention is to save the victims, their families and their property, the Federal Government should build new dams along the coastal areas to ensure a more permanent solution to the yearly flooding.
He added that his agency was working in collaboration with the traditional rulers, political aides, and president generals of the affected communities to identify the vulnerable persons.
