John Oyegun, National Chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC), said yesterday that the party was working on a relief programme for victims of the Benue floods.
Oyegun, who visited some of the areas affected by the cruel disaster, told Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) situated at the International Market, Makurdi that the party would do all it can to reduce the effect on those affected.
“APC is packaging a relief programme that will not only alleviate the sufferings of flood victims, but benefit the entire Benue people.
“The relief programme will be in batches; the first batch will arrive this week.
“The disaster is unfortunate and should not be a reoccurring decimal because it happened few years ago; we must now begin to dredge River Benue and other rivers, to put an end to it.
“We must also begin to make sure that we use the shore lands of these rivers as it is done in other parts of the world, for the public good,” he said.
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