By Mohammed Kandi
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said it would to provide additional assistance to the victims of the recent gas explosion that caused serious damages in Brass and Southern Ijaw in the coastal areas of Bayelsa state just as it has identified more affected communities affected by the disaster.
A statement issued by NEMA’s head of media and public relations, Yushau A. Shuaib, noted that the agency has carried out special assessment of the additional communities to benefit from the next sets of intervention exercise.
Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, according to the statement, identified some settlements located near Sangana and Fishtown in Southern Ijaw and Brass local government areas of the state.
Represented by NEMA’s Director Search and Rescue Operations, Air Commodore Alex Abayomi Bankole who led the assessment team to the area, Sani Sidi said the communities had alerted of the spillover effects of the explosions to their areas after several weeks of the disaster, with dangerous health hazards.
The team was made up of the Bayelsa State officials and received by the leaders of the various communities including King Gabriel Dickson Moko 5th of Sangana and King Ngozi O. Nammah 6th of Fishtown.
It would be recalled that the agency had recently delivered some relief items to some of the affected communities in the area.
The materials include food items and toiletries such as bags of Rice, Gari, beans, kegs of vegetable and palm oils.
Others are pieces of buckets, bags of Salts and Sugar, cartons of bath soap, cartons of detergent among other items.
