President Bola Tinubu has instructed Vice President Kashim Shettima to promptly visit Maiduguri, Borno State, in response to the catastrophic flooding in the state capital.
Shettima shared this disclosure on Tuesday during the 17th Annual Banking and Finance Conference (CIBN) in Abuja, which delved into the theme “Accelerated Economic Growth and Development: the State of play and the Way Forward.”
” After this meeting with the consent of the President, I will rush to Maiduguri. The whole city has been overtaken by flood.
“It is not peculiar to one part of the country. We are facing these challenges right from Bayelsa to Sokoto.
“Be rest assured that the President has the nation at heart and will do whatever it takes to salvage the state of affairs,” he said
Shettima expressed the sympathy of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to all the victims of flood disasters nationwide.
“I want to use this forum to commiserate with the people of our great nation over the flood disasters we are recording all across the length and breadth of this nation,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many residents of Maiduguri have been displaced by flood, following the collapse of water channels at the Alau Dam.
The flood submerged residential quarters, roads and bridges, making many areas in the metropolis inaccessible.
A NAN correspondent, who went around the metropolis, reported that the flood submerged strategic areas including parts of the Shehu of Borno Palace, Maiduguri Central Market and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
Other areas badly hit included the GRA, Maiduguri Zoo, College of Nursing, College of Agriculture and School of Health Technology, among others.
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