Gilbert Ekugbe Governor, Jigawa State, Umar Namadi, has raised the alarm as no fewer than 40,000 households have been directly affected by floods so far this year. According to the governor, twenty-three out of twenty-seven local government areas of Jigawa state were badly affected by floods. This is as the House of Representatives committee on ecological funds paid an oversight visit and inspection to victims of flood in Jigawa state, blaming climate change, deforestation, land degradation are major social problems affecting areas exposed to flooding every year in Nigeria.
In a statement issued on Wednesday evening by the media aid to the committee chairman on ecological funds, Dr Aminu Jaji, Jamilu Magaji, said as part of the committee’s oversight function, the visit was to see things for themselves and see what the Federal Government can do to ameliorate the suffering of flood disaster. The statement reads in parts: “The oversight visit was at the instance of the Jigawa state Governor Malam Ummaru Namadi in Dutse and other strategic places within the state”. “Aminu Jaji, the committee chairman, described the tragedy that befalls the people of Jigawa as shockingly identified desertification, land degradation, climate change crisis as well as deforestation as the major social problems affecting some areas exposed to flooding in Nigeria every year.
”. “The Chairman insisted that their oversight visits to states besides Jigawa are an extended one and members of his .