Morris Alagoa, Deputy Executive Director of Environmental Defenders Network, Chief Alagoa has called on Bayelsa State Governornme to as a matter of urgency utilize the 3 billion naira earmarked to ameliorate the suffering of this 2024 flood victims. He said will help the flood victims at Biseni, Amasomma, Sampuo and other communities in the state currently affected by the flood. Speaking at the weekend when he led some journalists to Biseni Community, in Yenagoa Local Government of the state, Alagoa stated that the people suffering and called for urgent action from government at the federal and state levels as well as interventionist agencies.
He also hailed the scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry disclosing that it has failed to make its impact felt in communities. He challenged the Niger Delta Development Commission to come to the aid of the people while urging the Federal government to give succour to Biseni. He advised that the government should fashion efficient and transparent mechanisms to distribute relief materials while supervising political appointees who always divert them.
He said: “This is one of the reasons why I supported the scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry because that ministry was like a conduit pipe, they will produce a budget approved by the National Assembly but there is no project in the Niger Delta by the ministry.” “Upon all these years that this place has been submerged by recurrent floods, no sign of NDDC to say this is higher ground or.
