NDDC SUPPLIES RELIEF ITEMS TO BAYELSA FLOOD VICTIMS
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By Sefiu Ajape
The Niger Delta Development Commission has supplied palliatives to communities in the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State that are exposed to flooding.
According to a statement released in Port Harcourt on Thursday by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Pius Ughakpoteni, the commission noted that the gesture was part of its efforts to lessen the impacts of floods on the people of the state.
Speaking at the handover of the various palliatives in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, the NDDC’s managing director, explained that the distribution of the relief supplies was the interventionist agency’s response to the difficulties facing the people and a means of mitigating the effects of the recurring flooding in many communities throughout the state.
Ogbuku, who was represented by the NDDC Director, Procurement, Dr. Week Doodei, and the Director of the Bayelsa State Office of the Commission, Godknows Alamieyeseigha, stated that the palliatives were given to the representatives of the several communities to assist them in addressing their issues.
He reaffirmed the NDDC’s commitment to ameliorating the challenges facing the people of the Niger Delta region, saying, “We share in the pains of the victims of the flooding in Bayelsa State. We realize that they have lost a lot, which cannot be replaced.
“We assure you that the NDDC has very good programmes for the people of the Niger Delta region, and as many people as possible will benefit from the distribution of the palliatives.”
In order to make sure that flood victims had something to fall back on after their losses, he urged community representatives in the areas affected by the flooding to distribute the supplies wisely. These included food and household items, farm inputs, and livelihood items like canoes, fishing nets, and hooks, among others.
He added, “The NDDC is not only about building roads and physical infrastructure. We also intervene in social services.
“We will monitor the distribution of these palliatives to ensure that they get to the affected areas. This intervention will take place in all the NDDC mandate states because the Commission was set up to address situations such as this.”
The Managing Director of the NDDC warned that stockpiling and diversion of the commodities would not be allowed and pleaded with the leaders of the beneficiary communities to make sure that the items reached the most disadvantaged individuals in their communities.
Following an inspection of the relief supplies loaded into numerous vehicles, the NDDC boss’s representatives gave the community leaders instructions to make sure the various supplies were transported to the various local government districts and localities where they would be distributed.
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