NEMA: Flooding killed 68, ravaged 320 LGAs in 2020
The National Emergency Management Agency on Monday put the number of lives lost to the 2020 floods in various parts of Nigeria at 68.
It also announced that 320 Local Government Areas in 35 states including the Federal Capital Territory were adversely affected by the floods experienced across the country this year.
The Director-General, NEMA, Muhammadu Muhammed, disclosed this at the 2020 Flood After Action Review Technical Meeting in Abuja.
He said, “The devastating impact of 2020 flooding killed 68 people, affected 35 states including FCT, 320 LGAs and over 129,000 people.
“It led to loss of lives, it destroyed houses and washed away farmlands across the country thereby having negative impact on food security.”
Muhammed observed that before the 2020 flooding occurred, the world was experiencing the COVlD-19 pandemic with lockdown and restriction protocols to contain the spread of the virus. Punch
