From Paul Osuyi, Asaba
SUCCOUR is underway for flood ravaged communities in Burutu and Bomadi local government areas of Delta State is the resolution adopted by members of the state House of Assembly is anything to go by.
The communities were recently sacked by massive flooding caused by overflow of the River in the areas.
At plenary on Thursday, the House unanimously adopted a resolution seeking the immediate intervention of both the federal and state governments to the plight of communities.
Member representing Burutu I Cinstituency at the House, Daniel Yingi drew the attention of the lawmakers to the plight of residents in the communities in a motion under matters of urgent public importance.
The House called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa “to direct the Commissioner, Bureau for Special Duties, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) as well as liaise with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to provide relief materials to the victims to cushion the effects of the disaster which swept over seventy communities in Burutu alone.”
Leading debate on the motion, Yingi who is the Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Oil and Gas, said “several communities in Burutu local government area has been submerged by flooding and their means of livelihood greatly affected.”
While naming the affected communities in Burutu alone to include Gbekebor, Ayakoromo, Okrika, Obotebe, Okpkunou, Ekodor, Forcados, Tuomo, Tamigbe, Kpakiema, Ogbeyama, Ezebri, Ogodobri, Ogbobaigbene among others, Yingi said “most farm lands have been submerged by the flood as the people can no longer go for fishing.”
The lawmaker appealed to both the federal and state governments “to urgently send relief materials to the flood victims as their fishing pond, farmlands and economic trees and crops have been destroyed by the flood”
Others in their contributions said the National Metrological Agency (NIMET) had predicted that communities in the river bank and flood plains would be affected by the 2016 flooding
