President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday authorized the dispatch of special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by the disaster.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja.
The president listed the states to receive the teams conveying reinforcement of reliefs and other equipment through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to include: Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Delta, Kano, Jigawa, Rivers, Bayelsa and Adamawa.
He noted that some of the states earlier reached with the first wave of support from the Presidency included: Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Sokoto, Jigawa and Kaduna.
Buhari expressed the nation’s sympathy to the victims of the floods, many of whom had lost family members, homes and valued investments in agricultural crops and livestock.
He underscored the need for additional coordination between the federal and state government agencies dealing with the issues, and for improved forecast and warning systems to avert similar calamities.
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