The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said that the humanitarian impact of the flooding in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States requires about $200m to tackle.
Addressing the special session of the ongoing 12th Annual Conference of Speakers of National and Regional Parliaments at the Pan-African Parliament of the African Union (AU) in Midrand, South Africa on Thursday, Kalu said that over one million persons were displaced in one of the State by the natural disaster with tens of thousands of families without shelter, food, water and access to healthcare.
Kalu who is leading the Nigerian delegation to the conference told participants that the tragedy has greatly affected the economy and the infrastructures of the states and the country at large.
He therefore called on the African Union and other international organizations to assist Nigeria in solving the humanitarian crisis.
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