Aliyu Dangida
18 November 2008
Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has said that Jigawa state is one of the front line states in terms of disasters ranging from soil and gully erosion, desertification, flood and drought, among others and needs urgent intervention of federal government.
Speaking, when he received, the delegation of 40 Senators led by Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Victor Nduma at the Government House Dutse, who were on a fact finding mission to the state, he said in terms of suffering and yearning for support, the state was at the front line.The governor decried further that the state is being hit by locust type grass, which hampers the free flow of water in the riverine areas and queller birds.
He said the position of the state was agonising and the people live in poor health condition, adding that when the rain comes it washes away their small houses "Here because we are so poor, our houses are made of corn stalk and mats, food crops are eaten by small insects, by the time they grow, the rain ceases," he lamented.
He said that the harvest in the state was very poor and in those four or five months people of the state live from one calamity to another. On gully erosion, Dutse the state capital is almost about to cave in because it has been pap orated, stating that from Three star hotel to Rasheed Shekoni specialist Hospital up to Fanisau, the town my likely paporate in the next three to four years if something urgent is not done.
Alhaji Sule Lamido who decried that Jigawa is under developed, urged the national assembly to appropriate resources so that they have a clear massive programme for Jigawa state through, special intervention.
"I have made so much noise about the problems, I have seen the president, we have been round talking but some how we have not been able to make our point in a more successive way,"
Earlier in his address, the team leader distinguished Senator Victor Nduma Egba said they held their 2008 retreat to review its achievement in the past one year and look at the subsequent session stating that during their last retreat in port Harcourt, they sent a syndicate team to asses situation in Niger Delta .
Ranging from all spillage insecurity among others stating that as a reward to the senate assess of the region, a ministry of Niger Delta was created.
The deputy senate leader with a view to see environmental challenges, they decided to hold the retreat in for north so as to have first hand information on the environmental problems so that they will appreciate them.
He stated that they divided the team in to three, one to Kaduna, sokoto and Jigawa explaining that Senator Saminu Turaki did a lot of lobbying to lure Senators to come to Jigawa which they described as one of the front line states hit by desertification, gully erosion and other related calamities and assured that when they go back their chambers, they will compile their report and present it as the federal with recommendations on it will assist the state.
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