Kufre George
The Bayelsa State government has urged the Federal Government to quickly implement the directive of President, Muhammadu Buhari to salvage the living conditions of over one million people displaced in 300 communities of the state by the surging flood.Buhari had on October 16th ,2022 expressed sadness over the devastation caused by the natural disaster in Bayelsa and directed all emergency authorities of the government to provide all necessary assistance to the state.The Commissioner for Environment and chairman of the State Flood Mitigation and Management Committee, Mr Iselema Gbaranbiri, made the call at the Oxbow Lake Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Yenagoa.He said that more than 4,000 homeless individuals and families were being sheltered and fed daily at the Oxbow Lake IDP camp alone, stressing that the Governor Douye Diri-led administration was also taking care of a similar number of victims at the Igbogene and other IDP camps.According to him, the delay in the implementation of the presidential intervention towards the emergency in Bayelsa had continued to reinforce the feeling of neglect by the Federal Government among the flood victims.
