Floods have devastated more than 200 households in Makurdi.
Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Emmanuel Shior, made the disclosure in Makurdi on Wednesday at the monthly distribution of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons.
He named some of the Benue capital’s affected areas as Naka Road, Achusa Kucha Utebe, Gyado Villa, Judge’s Quarters Extension, and parts of Nyiman.
Shior noted that flooding was not always so severe in the state.
He assured that the state’s Floods Committee had approved the expansion of flood relief camps in Makurdi, Guma, and Logo.
He added that recent attacks on some communities in the state had resulted in the displacement of more than 400,000 people.
He said the state government was catering to the victims and to refugees from Cameroon staying in Kwande Local Government Area of the state.
He appealed to the Federal Government to assist as the burden was becoming cumbersome for the state government.
Shior said assailants killed and maimed and also destroyed infrastructures such as markets, churches, and schools in communities attacked.
(NAN)
