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Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has bemoaned the destruction of property and the hardship visited on people of the state by flood.
Governor Diri, on Thursday, undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the flood situation in some communities and described it as very dire.
The governor, who was accompanied by the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Solomon Agwana; the Commissioner for Environment and Chairman of the Task Force on Flood Mitigation and Management, Mr. Eselema Gbaranbiri; his Works and Information counterparts, Moses Teibowei and Ayibaina Duba respectively, as well as other top government functionaries, made stops at Tungbo, Sagbama town and Adagbabiri, all in Sagbama Local Government Area.
He also visited Odi and Kaiama communities in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area.
While addressing the people in Izon dialect, the governor said he wanted to get first hand knowledge of what the people and the communities were going through. He encouraged them not to despair even as he acknowledged that it was a trying period for everyone. Diri presented cash gifts of N450 million to the affected communities and assured them that relief materials will immediately get to them through the task force on flooding. He equally called on Bayelsans to look out for one another and accommodate victims as homes and communities were being sacked.
He called on the Federal Government to come to the aid of the state as the present situation was beyond the resources of the state government just as he restated his call for the building of a dam around the River Niger.
