Bayelsa Post-Flood Committee Targets N20bn To Assist Victims

The Bayelsa Post-Flood Management Committee is targeting N20 billion to compensate victims and fix infrastructure damaged by the flood in the state last year, the chairman said.

The Chairman of the Committee, Chief Francis Doukpola, who made the fact known in Yenagoa on Tuesday, said the committee would visit flood-ravaged communities to assess the level of damage.

He said the committee would distribute relief materials to affected communities and collaborate with community leaders to ensure that the items reached the victims.

The Tide source recalls that the flood, which occurred between October2012 and November 2012, displaced more than 30,000 people in different communities across the eight local government areas of the state.

Doukpola said that members of the committee decided to embark on a tour to “have first hand information’’ on the needs of the victims and areas of intervention.

“This tour will form part of an in-depth post-impact assessment that will be the basis for a range of short, medium and long term measures to be coordinated by the committee and the government,” he said.

He expressed the hope that the committee’s intervention would help to mitigate socio-economic, health and other humanitarian impacts of the disaster on the victims.

Doukpola said that N500 million donated by Chief Mike Adenuga, the Chairman, Glo Communication, for flood victims was still in the custody of the Committee.