Windstorm has destroyed dozens of houses and farmlands at Mokwa town in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State, just as the residents called on the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to come to their aid with relief materials.
Speaking on behalf of the affected families on Monday, a community leader, Ahmed Haruna Tswata, said “many people have been made homeless and hungry because the windstorm of the 9th of June destroyed their houses, properties and farmlands”.
Mr Tswata called on the NEMA, and Niger State Emergency Agency, NISEMA, to come to the aid of the people with relief materials.
He also pleaded with government agencies and spirited individuals “to support the victims to erect their houses so that they could return to their normal lives”.
According to him, not only farmlands and houses; schools, electric poles and places of worship were also destroyed.
One of the people affected, Gana Audu, told our correspondent on the phone that the windstorm blew off the roof of his house, leaving himself, two wives and13 children homeless.
