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Musa Rhapsodi Affos, Jalingo


Tragedy struck on Wednesday as hoodlums attacked some officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and looted the relief materials meant for victims of Taraba flood.


Recall that Rhapsodi Affos has reported that over 200 houses were affected and several properties including farmlands were submerged on Saturday after a heavy downpour in Jalingo, Taraba State capital and some parts of Yorro.


Leadership of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), expressed dismay and sadness at the manner in which their visit to assess the levels of damages done by the recent flood disaster was disrupted by hoodlums.


NEMA who spoke to our reporter said the hoodlums prevented them from reaching out with the relief materials meant for persons seriously affected by the disaster which ravaged Jalingo metropolis.


Rhapsodi Affos Blog gathered that the hoodlums  brought down the entrance gate to the Jolly Nyame Stadium, where the items were being distributed.


Apart from depriving the victims access to the relief materials, several vehicles which were earlier brought in to assist victims with their goods, were vandalised by the hoodlums, who carted away both food and non-food items.


Reacting to the incident, the Assistant Head of Operations and Head of Relief and Rehabilitation, NEMA, Yola Operations Office, Ali Kadiri Moses, viewed the situation to be worse than that of the #ENDSARS.




 “What we saw on ground was enormous and beyond the 200 households targeted ” NEMA, according to him, is willing and ready to come in with more relief materials, if only the government will guarantee their security.


 “The government should stand up and make sure that the situation is addressed, if not, it is going to affect our interventions.”


Some of the victims who narrated their ordeal and how their relief materials were forcefully taken away by the hoodlums, the victims urged NEMA to endeavour to fashion out other measures of reaching out to them with the materials.


They urged the state government to collaborate with all the security agencies to halt further recurrence of such acts.


The agency reinstated that unless Taraba government tackles the rise in insecurity and attacks on their members, they may stay away from the state for a while.