Floods wreak havoc in Gombe

By Vincent Ekhoragbon

Gombe—No fewer than 22 persons, including a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, have been killed and five others missing in different flood disasters across Gombe State this year, the state’s Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has said.

Commenting on the development in Gombe metropolis yesterday, Mohammed Garba, Acting Head of SEMA’s Rescue and Rehabilitation, said some of the incidents were influenced by human factors.

He said the flooding, which occurred on June 7, July 1 and July 25, killed a total of 22 per-sons; six at Dadinkowa town in Yamaltu-Deba Local Government Area and 15 persons and one other in Gombe metropolis.

“Only a few persons were injured in all the flood incidents,” said Garba.

On other property affected, he said well over 450 bags of assorted grains were washed away. He added that over 300 of the bags were washed away at Dadinkowa, while 108 other bags, alongside 11 bags of fertilizers, were recorded at the Kamo Ward disaster.

The NYSC member that drowned, who was serving in Jigawa State, was holidaying at their Tunfure residence in Gombe metropolis and had volunteered to run an errand for his grandmother during a heavy rainfall, when the unfortunate incident happened.

 

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