From Yakubu Mustapha Minna
Communities in Niger state have begun to count their losses as early morning rain on Sunday ripped through farm lands in Kafin Koro, Paikoro local government area of the state.
Also affected are about 18 communities in Lapai local government area of the state, where some farm lands were equally affected and many others at the risk of being swept away.
Some of the communities include; Dere, Eshi, Apataku, Tsakanabi, Kuchi Kakanda, Arah, Achiba, Rebba, Ebwa, Pele, Edda, Rigido, Gbami, Yawa, Baka, and Muye.
This is coming even as the state government has re-echoed its earlier warning to Riverside communities in the state to immediately relocate to higher ground as the rain intensified across the state.
The state government in a statement in Minna by the Special Adviser to the governor on Media Communication and Strategy, Jonathan Vatsa appealed to communities in the affected areas to immediately relocate to a safer place to avoid further disaster in the state.
Vatsa said though the government understands the attachment to the ancestral homes by these communities, but said there is need for them to adhere to the government warning and relocate pending when the rain will be over.
He disclosed that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency had previously identified 15 out of the 25 local government areas in the State as very vulnerable to flooding every raining season.
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