ABUJA- Four farmers
in Kogi State
have committed suicide as a result of losses they incurred due to flood just as
thousands of others have been displaced. President Goodluck Jonathan who
disclosed this yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital while undertaking a
tour of the areas affected by flood encouraged the Internally Displaced
People, IDPs, in Bayelsa State not to give up hope, assuring that the Federal
Government was committed to rehabilitating them.
He stated this in
one of IDPs camps at Samson Siasia stadium, Yenagoa, Bayelsa
State.
Speaking in Yenagoa,
President Jonathan said, “In Kogi State, four farmers committed suicide because
they borrowed money from the bank to buy seeds and flood came and destroyed it.
So because they were scared they committed suicide. I was also in a place in
Kogi, where a storey building was under water.
“People that are not
in IDP are the people always struggling for relief materials. This flood is all
over the world, Asia, Europe, I
know that Nigeria
flooding is bad. And when we have such disaster food is not the problem, do not
make food your priority.
“If you eat once,
thank God, I know that none of you would die of hunger here. Before the
middle of November, the water would have receded.”
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