Nine thousand six hundred victims of the flood 2020 disaster across the country will benefit from the Federal Government cash and food items, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, has said.
Farouk who disclosed this at the distribution of the items at Miga local government area of Jigawa state, said the 2020 flood disaster affected 16 states in the country.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Bashir Nura, the minister said the support would serve as relief, not compensation, to the victims.
She said the 2020 flooding was devastating to the affected communities, and exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic.
“This made the federal government take various actions through various programmes and projects, including the National Social Investment Programme to ameliorate the situation,” Farouk said.
“It is on that strength that this intervention funded by the ECOWAS was designed to complement the efforts of the federal government towards the provision of sustainable livelihoods to the victims which focuses on cash and in kind assistance.
“The in-kind assistance will be carried out in 12 states, while cash assistance will be in four states targeting 1,600 households of 9,600 persons, and provisions of shelter kits to 183 households comprising 1,098 persons, mostly widows and women-headed households.
“There will be provision of 62 motorised boreholes and 62 hand washing points across the flood prone states of the country as expected to assist in the stabilisation of beneficiaries and their communities.”
