Niger Delta
CRHA Wants Relief Materials For Windstorm Victims
The Cross River House of Assembly, has urged the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to provide relief materials to victims of the recent windstorm that swept across the state.
The House also directed SEMA to evaluate the cost of human and material damages caused by the windstorm and present its findings to the Federal and State Assemblies for deliberation.
The House made the called following a matter of urgent public interest raised by Mr Jacob Enyia, representing Boki 11 constituency.
Enyia said that he raised the motion to draw attention to the sufferings and devastation caused by the wind storm which, he said, had destroyed about 1,000 houses across the state in the last three days.
“There is no community in all the local government areas of the state that was not affected by the windstorm.
“We decided to bring this matter to the House and call on the relevant authorities in the federal and state to come to the aid of our people.’’
In his contribution, Mr Agbiji Agbiji, representing Ikom 1 constituency, expressed regret that after 10 years of its existence, SEMA still lacked vehicles and staff to enhance its operations.
He urged the House to seek intervention that would go beyond the provision of basic relief materials for the victims, adding that it should seek intervention that would deepen the disaster management in the state.
Mr Wilson Ekpenyong, representing Odukpani constituency, appealed to the state government to increase the budgetary allocation to SEMA to enhance its activities.
The legislator expressed concern that the affected communities would not feel the impact of SEMA due to the ‘selective’ ways of its intervention.
Also, the Speaker of the House, Mr Larry Odey, stressed the need for the assembly to interface with SEMA to know the modalities and measures put in place to prevent future occurrence.
“I think what we should do is to interface with SEMA to enable us know what modalities it has put in place to ensure that such disasters do not reoccur.’’
After extensive deliberation on the matter, the House called on SEMA and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide relief materials to the people to cushion the effect of the windstorm.
The windstorms affected all the 18 local government areas of the state.
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