Adamawa State Government Chases Flood Victims Out Of Occupied Schools.

Flood victims in Adamawa State currently settling in public schools in parts of the state have been urged to vacate their temporary abodes to allow for the new academic session to commence in the state. The state government said it would soon provide the victims alternative camp sites. The state Commissioner for Special Duties, Hayatu Zumo, said the state government had to take this step for the good of the stranded pupils, who are unable to commence the new academic session because of the stay of the flood victims in the schools.

Only recently, Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Kobbis Aris, had warned the victims not to go back to their respective homes, saying that the Cameroon government would open the Lagdo Dam in the months of September and October. As a temporary measure following the floods that ravaged the state recently, the state government had evacuated and camped victims in nearby public schools across the state where they have been receiving attention and relief from agencies, individuals and corporate bodies.

Zumo gave the latest evacuation order at the flag-off of the relocation of the victims to temporary camps in Yola, the state capital. Making presentation of relief materials to the evacuees, she urged the displaced persons to be patient adding that the state government was poised to cushion the hardship they were passing through due to the disaster.

Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Shadrack Daniel, also told newsmen that some of the displaced persons had vacated their camps to live with their relatives or elsewhere.

However, he posited that SEMA would still reach out to the IDPs with relief items to ease their suffering.