Raging flood has washed away about 12,000 hectares of rice, cassava, sesame and guinea corn farmlands in nine villages under Malammadori Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
The Councilor representing Tashena Ward, Alhaji Yunusa Bulama, who made this known in Malam madori today, August 18, said that the flood affected such villages as Tashena, Kadumunbari, Hadyan, Azumu, Kadumantudu, Dowawa, Dososo, Allahyayi and Unguwar-Jamaare villages.
Another lawmaker, representing Kaugama/Malammadori Federal Constituency, Alhaji Maki Yalleman, said that 8,000 hectares of rice farmlands were destroyed in the flood, while 4,000 hectares of land destroyed contained cassava, sesame and guinea corn.
This was even the Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Hussaini Birnin-Kudu, said that 5,000 sacks had been distributed to residents to erect sand-bag at the bank of Hadejia River in the area.
He explained that the embankment would check damages as water level kept rising by the day.
Source: NAN.
