Chairman of the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency, Walamam Igurubia, has disclosed that a set triplet and three sets of twin babies have been delivered at the internally displaced person camp in Oxbow Lake, in the state capital.
This is as the state’s Flood Mitigation and Management Task Force, on Sunday, commenced the distribution of relief materials to affected people in several clusters of non-designated internally displaced persons’ centres and private camps within Yenagoa and its environs.
The SEMA boss, who is a member of the flood committee, also shed more light on the distribution of food items to the clusters and private IDP camps.
Igurubia said, “In the Oxbow Lake (IDP camp), we had a set of triplets; we have three sets of twins, that’s making it three plus six, nine. Then we had two births on Friday and Saturday; so, about 11 to 12 births.
And we got a complaint of a woman stuck in her house after giving birth and she and her baby were very sick. Luckily, we were able to evacuate them to Diete-Koki Memorial Hospital.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Task Force and Commissioner for Environment, Iselema Gbaranbiri, said the state government identified the cluster IDP centres and some private camps following an enumeration exercise.
Gbaranbiri said, “We are distributing (relief items) to clusters within the Yenagoa metropolis. There are countless informal camps, and that tells you the population in Yenagoa. We have enumerated so many of them.
“We have over time gathered relief materials, the state government has released N900m in two tranches of N450m each.
“We have procured relief materials from within and outside the state. We are still procuring. Now, most of it has been delivered to the local government areas through sub-committees. The items we are distributing include beans, garri, rice and othe
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