The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency,SEMA says it has set up designated resettling camps to receive residents displaced by flood.
The Executive Secretary of SEMA Mainunatu Abubakar, made this known on Wednesday in a meeting with stakeholders following the rising level of rivers in Kaduna State.
According to her, the agency is taking proactive measures by opening doors at all local education authority primary schools in Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Igabi and Chikun local government areas of the state.
She said the state had repeatedly been affected by the flood destroying property, displacing people and disrupting various activities in the state, hence the need for control.
Mainunatu said that the purpose of the meeting was to ensure preparedness among stakeholders and residents of flood-prone communities.
She said that the flood situation was alarming as
water levels kept increasing daily and that more communities were bound to be
submerged if the situation subsisted.
