Flood destroys 2,000 hectares of farmland in Kwara

Date: 2017-10-08

About 2,000 hectares of farmland have been destroyed by floodwater across the three districts of Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State.

Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed's Special Adviser on Emergency and Relief Services, Duro Mohammed, said this while inspecting the havoc caused by flood in Patigi on Saturday.

Mohammed said rice farms in Lade, Patigi and Sepondi districts cultivated near the River Niger were mostly affected as well as a clinic, a cemetery and a primary school at Gbaradogi.

The governor's aide, who led the state government's delegation to the flooded farms, described the damage as devastating.

Some of the affected farmers, who spoke with journalists, lamented that the rice produce had just ripened for harvest before the flooding.

One of the victims, Alhaji Muhammadu Saadu, who is the head of Gbaradogi community, said rice and fish farms were washed away.

Saadu called on the federal and state governments to immediately come to their aid to ameliorate their suffering.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government delegation also inspected the internally displaced persons' camp under construction by the Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation. Mohammed urged the Federal Government to come to the aid of the state, saying the magnitude of the disaster was too much for the state to bear alone.

He also called for urgent dredging of River Niger and construction of a drain that would permanently secure the rice farms against flooding in the future.

The Etsu Patigi, Mr. Ibrahim Chatta Umar, expressed concern over perennial flooding in the area.

The monarch also suggested that dredging of River Niger and construction of drains would permanently save the community from disaster.

Umar said the flood had increased poverty level in the community, noting that compensation was not enough to ameliorate the suffering of the predominantly farming indigenes.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Amuda Bembe     Okiki     Bukola Ajikobi     Kwara State Sports Commission     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Galadiman Ngeri     Oluronke Adeyemi     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     General Hospital     Halidu Danbaba     Basit Olatunji     Transition Implementation Committee     Yusuf A. Usman     Simon Sayomi     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Gwanara     IYA YUSUF     CCEPE     Dogara     Chief Of Staff     Yusuf Lawal     CCT     Erubu     Frootify     Kamaldeen Gambari     Aminat Omodara     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Kayode Oyin Zubair     New Naira Notes     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Tuesday Assayomo     Gbemi Saraki     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Doyin Agbamu     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Musa Abdullahi     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Sobi FM     Abdulwahab Ololele     Bola Magaji     Adisa Logun     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     UTME     Abubakar Ndakene     Christopher Ayeni     IHS     Amos Bajeh     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Hauwa Nuru     CLAY POT     IQRA College     ARMTI     ER-KANG Mining     KFA     James Kolo     Saka Aleshinloye     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Adebara     Agboola Abdulraheem     Forgo Battery     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Photo News     Joseph Offorjama     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Balogin Alanamu     Tosho Yaqub     Olatunde Jare     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Alaro     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Olomu     Isin     Adamu Attah    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oke-opin     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Sunset Workers     Funmi Salau     Kwara State Polytechnic     ANCOPPS     Hassanat Bello     Pacify Labs     Babajide Ajayi     Temitope Ogunbanke     Neo Mundo Ltd     Wahab Agbaje     Yemi Osinbajo     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Quareeb Islamic Association     Idris Garuba     Plat Technologies     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Yemi Sanni     Convocation Ceremonies     Facebook     Sun Qing Rong     Aso Ofi     Femtech     NAWOJ     Labour Party     Yakubu Shaaba     Tafida Of Kaiama     Universal Basic Education Commission     Kwara State Pension Board     Rasheed Jimoh     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Kanu Agabi     Ahmad Belgore     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Maryam A. Garuba     Sodiya     Split Diamond Interchange     Sidikat Akaje     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Pius Abioje     Adedeji Onimago     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Nigeria Customs Service     Kwara Politics     Rihanat Ajia     Sunday Fagbemi     Kwabes     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Talaka Parapo     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Saad Belgore     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Bola Shagaya     Monthly Sanitation     KFA     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Najim Yaasin     Mubarak Oladosu     Ahmad Uthman     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Basic Education Certificate Examination     TIC     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Adeniyi Ojo     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Kubra Kazum     Olayinka Olaogun     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Kale Ayo     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Maryam Ado Bayero     BIR     Garment Factory     Oke-Ode