DELTA GIVES FINANCIAL LIFELINE TO FLOOD VICTIMS

DELTA TO PAY A TOKEN OF #5,000 AND #3,000 RESPECTIVELY TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN FLOOD CAMPS ACROSS THE STATE

Every Adult affected by the flood and accommodated in various camps in Delta state is to be given five thousand naira while every child would receive three thousand naira each before they leave the camps.

The state governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who announced this at a meeting with political appointees said the gesture was a “token pocket money” for those anxious to go back to their houses.

Dr. Uduaghan said the committee inaugurated to work out modalities for the resettlement of the internally displaced persons has not submitted report and so the ultimate resettlement plan was yet to be unfolded.

 He also explained that once the committee’s report was received the state government would reach out to the victims and resettle them properly.

His words “we are not going to allow flood victims anxious to go back to their house empty handed. We are going to give them little funds to buy pots and other essentials because they lost everything to the flood.

The governor therefore directed camp commandants to properly document data of victims to ensure that each family would be easily contacted when government was ready with the final resettlement package.

He however cautioned against the registration of persons not resident in the camps explaining that gathering data on flood victims should not be seen as a census and should be therefore limited to only those in camps.

Dr. Uduaghan used the occasion to announce that his administration has no plans to recruit people to work in the camps

According to the governor “there is no employment programme going on in the camps, I have not directed any group or individuals to recruit people to work in the camps. Indeed nobody is recruiting anybody”.

He warned applicants in the state not to allow themselves to be duped even as he said that anybody buying form for recruitment into the camps for any job is doing so at his or her own risk.

The governor who was visible angry with an information that some people where selling forms for employment in the camps for N20,000 each, expressed shock at the extent people could go to make money. (GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT)