Federal Government says it had received World Bank’s commitment of $500 million to support its efforts at addressing the erosion in Nanka and Agulu communities in Anambra State.
The World Bank support is coming as the United Nations also pledged to provide technical expertise for states ravaged by last year’s devastating flood, to enable them manage future occurrence.
The United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Baroness Valerie Amos, who stated this in Lokoja , Kogi State, at the start of a two day working visit to four states affected by flood in Nigeria, described the flood that devastated nine Local Government Areas of Kogi State last year as unfortunate, saying her visit was to seek ways of granting technical assistance to the state to help rebuild lives and damaged infrastructures.
Baroness Amos, who assured of partnership with the Federal and State Government to bring differences in the lives of the people whose lively hood were badly affected by the flood, described water as life but said the 2012 flood disaster was a threat to life, occasioned by the impact of climate change.
She explained that her team was billed to visit Kogi, Delta, Anambra and Bayelsa States that were devastated by the flood to assess post flood impact and see how possible best the UN will assist these states.
Speaking during the Ministerial Media Platform in Abuja organised by the Ministry of Information on Friday, the Minister of Environment, Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, said as part of Federal Government’s preparedness against this year’s predicted flood, the Ministry has deployed about 500 Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) in different locations in the country.
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