“This is why we are appealing to residents to cooperate with us and stop dumping wastes in drainages or building on waterways.”
On Tuesday, NEMA received another batch of 148 stranded Nigerians from Niamey in Niger Republic.
He pointed out that the HYPPADEC was prepared to intervene in communities with serious ecological and drainage issues, adding that it was hampered by resources at its disposal.
The returnees comprised 144 males, 56 females and 66 children.
The agency plans to distribute food and non-food items among IDPs to cushion their hardship.
The 116,084 displaced persons cut across 12,856 households in 11 local government areas of the state.
A total of 4,989 houses were destroyed and 16,393 victims affected by the flood.
The flood also destroyed 1,405 farms in Bebeji, 260 in Rano and 5,775 others in Dawakin Kudu.
In 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a 3.35-kilometre Idye Basin drainage channel to address the ecological challenges facing Makurdi.
The IDPs were given 10,000 bags of 25kg rice, 10,000 bags of corn grits, 4,000 cartons of pasta, 4,000 gallons of vegetable oil, 5,000 blankets and 5,000 mats.
