Some riverside communities in Bayelsa State have been submerged by flood, destroying properties worth millions of naira.
The lawmaker representing Sagbama constituency III in the State House of Assembly, Salo Adikumo, said in a statement in Yenagoa that the worst hit communities in his area were Asamabiri, Elemebiri, Ekperiware and Adagbabiri on the bank of River Niger and its tributary, the Forcados River.
Adikumo, therefore, sought the intervention of the Federal Government through National Emergence Management Agency, NEMA.
He also appealed to other relevant federal agencies to with haste come to the rescue of those affected by the flood as the state government was doing its best within the limit that they can.
Also speaking, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, Commissioner for Information and Orientation, statted that the number of communities affected by the flood was increasing daily, and insisted that the state was in dire need of support from the Federal Government.
He reiterated an earlier call by the deputy governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (retd), that the state was yet to get its own share of the flood intervention fund.
