The Kano State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has revealed how 51 people lost their lives across the 44 local government areas of the state during the last raining season.
The Executive Secretary of the agency comrade Saleh Jili, disclosed this while addressing a delegation from Civil Society Scalling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, CS-SUNN led by its National Chairman, Innocent Ekene, in his office in Kano.
He said the flood destroyed over 10,000 farmlands with farm produce worth millions of naira and that over 46 000 persons were displaced by flood, and fire outbreaks.
He added that in 2020, flood cases led to the deaths of 51 people.
He also lamented over the high number of cases of fire outbreak being recorded in the state, stating that in 2020 the state recorded over 10,000 cases of fire outbreaks.
He further described the response capacity of SEMA to emergency cases as pathetic, adding that paucity of funds has continued to hinder the agency from effective delivery of emergency services to the populace residing in urban and rural areas.
He appealed to philanthropists and corporate organizations to come to the rescue of victims through rendering material and financial support to the agency.
Earlier in his remarks, National Chairman, CS-SUNN, Innocent Ekene, urged the agency to create a budget line for nutrition, noting that victims of disasters also deserved to be properly feed.
He also pleaded with the agency to assign a desk officer to superintend over nutrition issues, for the inclusion of members of the State Committee on Food and Nutrition, to help promote nutrition in the agency.
