The recent flood cases in Katsina State affected over 1,000 households, destroying houses and personal properties on their path.
The state executive director of the Rehabilitation, Emergency and Relief Agency (RERA), Hassan Rawayyau, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Katsina, said a total of 1,033 households were affected but that the figures represented data from seven local government areas.
Rawayyau identified the council areas to include Katsina, Musawa, Bakori, Dutsi, Zango, Kankia and Malumfashi, and that the figure covered those collated since the flooding was first witnessed on July 8.
He said that seven out of the state’s 34 local government areas were mostly affected by the flood cases recorded in the state.
Rawayyau maintained that the state capital and its environs had the highest number of affected persons with 524 victims from different parts of the council.
He blamed the flood aftermaths on the indiscriminate dumping of refuse and building of houses along water ways, and said that the state government was planning to relocate persons whose houses were on water ways.
According to him, “we will try to see that those who built houses along the water ways are taken to a better place so as not to jeopardize their lives and those of other families”.
The RERA boss called for the establishing of a law that would deter and punish persons who violated building rules.
‘‘Relief materials being distributed to the flood victims include food stuffs, mattresses, blankets, zinc and cooking oil and the exercise would be completed within the shortest time possible, Rawayyau said.