The TY Danjuma Foundation has distributed relief materials to flood victims in Taraba state through the foundation’s ‘Quick Impact Grant Making Scheme’.
A statement from the Foundation, which was made available to LEADERSHIP, disclosed that Ms Thelma Ekiyor, executive director of the Foundation, and her team visited temporary camp sites of displaced flood victims, distributing a wide range of relief materials.
While visiting the displaced persons, Ms Thelma said, “Taraba was the Foundation’s home state which necessitated prompt attention to the needs of the flood victims”, but assured that the Foundation would assist other flood affected areas in the country.
She urged Nigerians, private institutions and other good spirited individuals to work with the government to assist flood victims in affected states.
Houses worth millions of naira were said to have be en destroyed in Bissaula and Angwan Yadi villages in Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba State following long hours of rainfall last Sunday.
Also, over 3, 000 displaced persons in the 2005 flood were said to be squatting in various camps in Jalingo, the Taraba state capital.
The Secretary to the Taraba State Government (SSG), Ambassador Emmanuel Njiwah, disclosed this when he and other top government officials visited various camps located in Jalingo metropolis where the victims were being sheltered.
Earlier the Chairman of the Nigeria Red Cross, Taraba State chapter, Hassan Abubakar, had told the government officials that most of the people had no food, drugs and beds and were sleeping on bare floor in classrooms.
He expressed fears of an outbreak of chorea and asked government to take steps to avert it.
LEADERSHIP investigations revealed that most of the displaced persons were compensated during the 2005 heavy flooding in Jalingo but refused to relocate to the new site allocated to them by government.