People displaced by flood in Kogi State have been tasked to cooperate with government officials towards ensuring that the good intention of government in mitigating their suffering is not jeopardize.
Arc Yomi Awoniyi, Chairman State Emergency Management Agency, stated this in Ajaokuta when he carried out a fact finding and an assessment tour to determine claims by displaced victims and to ascertain some complain over their welfare.
The Deputy Governor who,was represented by Commodore Onekutu, Special Adviser Special Duties, said the government is doing so much to make the displaced persons comfortable,wondered why some persons with the connivance of some elements who do not mean well for the state are bent on sabotaging the efforts of the state government.
The Government, Commodore Onekutu stated, can only succeed when those who are actually displaced work with Government to fish out the impersonators, urged the victims to also show gratitude by making genuine claims over the efforts put in place by government.
The representative of the Deputy Governor, warn those trying to portray the activities of the Relief Management Committee and SEMA, in bad light to desist as the government’s intention in the medium and long term are geared towards their well being and genuine rehabilitation.
In her remarks, Alice Ogedengbe, Acting Secretary SEMA, said the agency is aware that most of the challenges faced by her officials, are caused by insincerity on the part of those pretending to be displaced victims and some of the few victims who think they can achieve more by running down government, appealed for understanding as the efforts put in place by government is geared towards reducing the plight the are going through.
Highlight of the fact finding visit was the presentation of relief materials to those in Asco and camps by the State Government.
