Nigeria: Disaster - Lamido Seeks FG's Intervention

18 November 2008

Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has said that Jigawa state is one of the front line states in terms of disasters ranging from soil and gully erosion, desertification, flood and drought, among others and needs urgent intervention of federal government.

Speaking, when he received, the delegation of 40 Senators led by Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Victor Nduma at the Government House Dutse, who were on a fact finding mission to the state, he said in terms of suffering and yearning for support, the state was at the front line.The governor decried further that the state is being hit by locust type grass, which hampers the free flow of water in the riverine areas and queller birds.

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