Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (YOSEMA) has confirmed that flood killed at least four persons, including a police officer, with scores of others sustaining injuries in Gulani local government area of the state.
Mohammed Goje, the executive secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (YOSEMA), while disclosing this on Sunday, July 17, 2022, noted that the incident occurred after a heavy downpour, which washed away more than 11 communities in Gulani, as well as one community in Gujba, in the last 24 hours.
“In the last 24 hours, the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (YOSEMA) received with shock, the devastating incident of flooding in some parts of the state, where the impacts of the reported flooding have assumed threatening proportions, resulting in loss of lives and properties”, Goje said.
The executive secretary added that the latest disaster led to the displacement of hundreds of households across the affected communities in the two local government areas, with livestock and food reserves worth millions of naira swept away by the flood, according to Daily Post.
The agency, alongside stakeholders from Gulani, carried out damage assessment in seven out of 11 communities as Gulani, Bara, Gagure and Njibulwa communities, rendered inaccessible due to bridge collapse.
According to the agency, the displaced persons are currently taking refuge at government’s buildings across the affected communities.
“Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (YOSEMA), as directed by his excellency, the executive governor of Yobe state, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, is mobilizing resources, and intensifying efforts to bring immediate relief to the affected communities, while alternate routes will be used to support the inaccessible communities,” Goje assured.