FLOODING: FG NEGLECTED NIGER DELTA, SAYS CLARK

Elder statesman and First Republic Federal Information Commissioner, Chief Edwin Clark has raised concerns over the misfortunes that have gripped victims of flooding in the Niger Delta with a call on the Federal Government to act fast because of looming disasters and humanitarian crises.

He queried why the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, whose mandate was to ensure strategic disaster mitigation, preparedness and response, has neither been to the Niger Delta nor sent any relief materials to them but donated food items to vulnerable and displaced persons as a result of banditry in Sokoto State.

Clark disclosed that while the gesture to Sokoto was quite commendable, “the same gesture should, urgently and speedily extended to the States of the Niger Delta, and other places, which are being ravaged by flood.”