Downpour destroys houses, renders families homeless in Jigawa

HEAVY downpour on the early hours of yesterday rendered hundreds families homeless at Maigatari town Maigatari local government area of Jigawa state.

Reports from area indicated that houses in hundreds are destroyed as a result of as the heavy downpour coursed the collapsing of all most all the mode building while wing carried away the roofing of some houses during the downpour.

Tribune Online from the stated gathered that the disaster also damaged food items such as millet, groundnut etc that recently harvested from farms.

One of the victims who gave his name as Isah Nasiru said “our clothes, room furniture’s and other domestic materials lost to the raining.

Also gathered by Tribune Online revealed that the council chairman Alhaji Sani Dahiru has visited the affected areas and sympathized with the victims.

The local government council chairman called on state emergency management agency to come to the aid of the victims.

When contacted in his mobile phone the executive secretary Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Yusif Sani Babura confirmed the incident, said “yes there was that incident. I sent my staff to assess the level of damages and lost estimate.

Alhaji Yusif Sani added that “they (the staff) are still there, I also not in the office now. I will be in office tomorrow (today) hopefully to come back and reports back to office”.