By Michael Agbaji
The member of house Representative representing Fagge Federal Constituency of Kano State has calls for urgent intervention to control Erosion and Flood at Fagge threatening human lives and properties .
The House made the called on Tuesday in the motion presented at the floor by Hon. Muhammed Shehu from Kano state urgently ask the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Ecological Fund Office to intervene by assessing the erosion problems with a view to ensuring the execution of
erosion control and remediation projects Fagge and other communities.
The House resolution was sequel to a motion by Hon. Muhammed Bello Shehu, representing Fagge Federal Constituency of Kano State.
Hon. Shehu also told journalists in an interview that the recent erosion and flood in in several communities in Fagge is threatening lives and properties hence the need for quick intervention.
Presenting the motion at the floor of the green chamber on Tuesday Shehu
noted that soil is the most vital natural resources on earth as it hosts both animate and inanimate
beings, unfortunately erosion is becoming a serious environmental disaster, threatening and
destroying physical infrastructures, properties, as well as retarding the social and economic growth
and development.
“Aware that Kwarin Gogau, Zungeru Road, Kwakwaci, Darirawa, Sabon Birni, Alfa, Tudun Bojuwa,
Alasawa, Jaba, Kwarin Akuya and Kwakwaci II all in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State
are facing severe and destructive environmental degradation and poverty as a result of erosion and
floods occasioned in the said communities;
“Worried that erosion and flood kills, shatters industrial developments, wreck economy, creates low food production, degrades environment and makes the future bleak, if not checked,” he said.
Following the motion, the House
urger the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to supply relief materials to the affected areas.
The House further urged the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to rehabilitate and reconstruct the affected roads
The House mandated its committee on Appropriations (when constituted) to include the project in the
2024 Appropriation bill.
