Atiku Gifts Bayelsa Flood Victims N50m, Assures On Dasin-Hausa Dam Completion

BY ONYEKACHUKWU IBEZIM – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N50 million to victims of the flood incident that ravaged Bayelsa state recently.

This is as he promised to complete the Dasin-Hausa Dam in Adamawa state to manage the release of excess water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon, when elected president in the 2023 election.

Describing the flood scenes in the South South State as ‘horrendous’, the PDP Standard bearer said; “What I witnessed in Bayelsa is as disheartening as reports from other places; it is a story of human trauma under the spell of nature’s fury. Public infrastructure like roads and power lines have been swept away in a flash, and facilities like hospitals and schools are destroyed and remain unavailable”.

Atiku, who commiserated with the victims, noted that those lucky to survive these floods have lost their belongings, and need every ounce of help that they can get from the government, non-governmental charity institutions and private donors.

According to to him; “On behalf of my delegation, I wish to make a donation of Fifty Million Naira (N50m) to the victims in Bayelsa State

“While we continue to advocate for charity in help of the victims, I want to reiterate my earlier call for the federal government to immediately launch an independent Flood Disaster Relief Fund that will provide succour to the victims of the floods.”

Also calling for special intervention to address the flooding challenge, the Wazirin Adamawa said; “It is a national emergency relief fund, similar in scope to what was initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to that end, I wish to call on my friends and associates in the corporate world and in private capacities to join in this cause.”