The ravaging flood taking over some states in Nigeria has hit Bomadi local government area of Delta State, killing a- six-year old boy and submerging over 9 communities.
Our Bomadi Correspondent reports that communities such as Bomadi, Esanma, Kalafiogbene, Elohim, Ogriagbene, Ogboin-Ama, Akugbene, Okoloba and Ekamtagbene have so far been affected by the ravaging flood.
Fresh Angle gathered that the only market at Ogriagbene has been submerged, while part of the community has been cut off from others. The where-about of most of the victims in the local government were unknown as at Press time, while some residents were seen relocating to areas yet to be affected and erecting makeshift embankment in a bid to ward off the flood.
At Kpakiama which is the worst hit, residents were seen using canoes to evacuate properties they could salvage from their houses.
Chairman of Kalafiogbene community, Anthony Egere bares his frustration this way, “we have lost our sources of livelihood and farmlands”. A victim at Kpakiama told Fresh Angle, “I woke up at the dead night and saw that my house has been overtaken by flood”.
Meanwhile the Head of Personnel Management of Bomadi local government council, Mr. Sunday Ekeremor has appealed to the Delta State government and National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA to come to the aid of flood victims in the area.
Mr. Ekeremor who made the appeal in a chat with newsmen in Bomadi, noted that the council has so far assisted the affected communities in constructing makeshift embankment as palliative, even as he quipped that the measure could not save the situation.
According to him, most of the evacuees who have taken refuge at Bomadi community ground are without food and adequate care.
The Bomadi Council authorities have already set up primary health care units at resettlement camps in a bid to check possible outbreak of epidemics, just as the evacuees have appealed to the relevant authorities for food aid.
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