From Sani Gazas Chinade, Damaturu
In a visit to inspect the places and roads washed away by floods that are reported in Yobe and some parts of the North-Eastern States, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the North-Eastern Development Agency (NEDC) Alhaji Muhammad G. Alkali stated that their agency is planning to take action to support and repair the roads damaged by floods in some areas of the state and other areas that have been affected by such floods in the entire North-Eastern states.
The managing director of the NEDC said this during a visit to Nangere, Tarmuwa and Gujba local governments to check the flood that destroyed Potiskum road to Gashuwa, the road from Damaturu to Gashuwa, Geidam and Damaturu road to Biu in Borno State.
Speaking to the press during the visit, the General Manager of NEDC, assured the communities of the affected areas that, he would submit the appeals and complaints of the communities to the federal government as they requested to see Something was done in time to notice the hardships of the pressure of life that the flood threw them into.
In the same way, the NEDC board will make every effort to see that it provides emergency assistance to the communities that have met this light and also to try to see that these roads are rebuilt, particularly the actual places damaged by flood.
He also condoled with the people who met with this tragedy which he said should consider this event as a test from Allah SWT.
The General Manager also inspected the construction of the office of the agency in Damaturu town and a large teaching and meeting room built by the NEDC at the Yobe State University as part of the activities it is doing to support education in the Northeast region.
One of the members of the National Union of Drivers NURTW in Tarmuwa Local Government Malam Mustapha has asked the Federal Government, the Yobe State Government and the NEDC to help them repair their road that has been affected by the floods and monitor the situation. and the hardship that this light threw them and they lost more than 200 of their farms.
This visit was accompanied by senior officers of the agency, including the chief focal person of Yobe State, Dr. Ali Abbas, and others.