Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday expressed the sympathy of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to all the victims of flood disasters nationwide.
Shettima spoke at the 17th Annual Banking and Finance Conference (CIBN) with the theme,” Accelerated Economic Growth and Development: the state of play and the way forward,” in Abuja.
” 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 breath of this nation
” After this meeting with the concert 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,” Shettima assured.
Newsspecng.com reports that many residents of Maiduguri in Borno 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 correspondent, who went round the metropolis, reports that the flood submerged strategic areas including parts of the Shehu of Borno Palace, Maiduguri Central Market and 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.
Many residents were seen evacuating basic items to areas considered relatively safer, with some youths erecting sandbags to prevent water from entering their quarters.
The state government is yet to issue official figures of casualties, but it has ordered the closure of public and private schools for two weeks.