Kogi State government says it has commenced the construction of 1000 housing units for the victims of last year’s flood that affected the state.
The government added that the state required over 200,000 housing units to be able to rehabilitate those whose houses were submerged and is soliciting assistance from the federal government and the international bodies to help cushion the effect of the flood.
The deputy governor, Yomi Awoniyi, who doubled as the chairman of the state emergency agency, disclosed this yesterday while presenting the score card to presidential committee on flood.
Awoniyi described the flood as unprecedented, saying that it was so bad that it overshot its bank by 3.5km as against the usual 50 meters.
The deputy governor added that the government has completed the rehabilitation of six schools in four of the nine affected Local Government Areas of the state even as others rural roads are on going.
Awoniyi explained that the estimated 200,000 units of houses needed to relocate people from the shorelines was part of the strategy to avert the NIMET prediction.
Aside its intervention in the rehabilitation of people and infrastructures, he stressed that the responsibilities of total rehabilitation was beyond the financial capability of the state government.
He therefore solicited the support of the federal government to rebuild affected educational and health infrastructures.
