HYPPADEC donates relief materials to flood victims in Kebbi
The Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), has donated relief materials to flood victims in four local government areas of Kebbi.
The Managing Director of HYPPADEC, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, presented the materials at the flag off of the donation in Shanga LGA on Saturday.
He said the donation was part of the continuous collaboration between the agency and state government.
“We sympathy with you and we are here to flag off the distribution of relief materials to the flood victims in Shanga, Koko/Besse, Bagudo and Dandi Local Government Areas of the state.
“It is our responsibility to collaborate with the state government in order to provide you with relief materials to cushion the effects of the flood disaster you experience.
“You know as well as we do that the disaster of such is from God and He alone can compensate you,” he said.
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The relief materials are 1,325 mattresses, 1,060 blankets, 2,659 mosquito treated nets, 265 cartons of washing soap, 265 cartons bathing soap and 100 bundles of roofing zink.
Sadiq-Yelwa added that the severely affected three communities in Shanga LGA would get additional relief of 88 bags of rice, 88 bags of millets and 88 bags of maize respectively.
“The communities from the portion of the entire relief materials would get 353 blankets, 441 mattresses, 883 mosquito treated nets, 78 cartons of washing soap, 87 cartons of bathing soap and 33 roofing zink,” he said.
According to him, the three communities in Shanga LGA will also get three million cash assistance as additional relief from the commission.
Sadiq-Yelwa said that the commission had deployed medical health personnel to render free medical services to the flood victims from three days in the area.
He also disclosed that the commission had approved contract for the construction of 1,805 communities under the commission in the country.
“We have started providing solar boleholes to these communities so that it could attract them to the upland. We have also approved the construction of hand pump- boreholes to these communities.
“Any riverine community would benefit from this initiative. We have 1,805 communities in Nigeria under HYPPADEC scheme and all these 1,805 communities would have handpumps.
“In addition to that, we have also commence the rehabilitation of existing hand-pumps in many communities because some of these communities, have the problem of N100,000, N200,000 for repairing them; therefore, they were abandoned.
“So ,we have already given out the contract for the rehabilitation of 350 of them and as soon as we finished these, we are going to give out another contract for the rehabilitation of another 350 so that, at the end of the year, we would be able to address the problem of 1,805 communities”, he said.
The MD urged the victims to utilise the gesture for the purpose it was meant in order to uplift themselves from the state of their condition.
In his remake,the Chairman of Shanga Local Government, Alhaji Aminu Suleiman, commended the commission, especially the MD for the gesture to the flood victims.
He stressed that the relief materials would go along way to alleviate the suffering of the victims.
