Four
farmers in Kogi State have committed suicide as a result of losses they
incurred due to flood just as thousands of others have been displaced.
President Goodluck Jonathan who disclosed this yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa
State capital while undertaking a tour of the areas affected by flood
encouraged the Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in Bayelsa State not to give
up hope, assuring that the Federal Government was committed to rehabilitating
them.
He stated this in one of IDPs camps at
Samson Siasia stadium, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Speaking in Yenagoa, President Jonathan
said, “In Kogi State, four farmers committed suicide because they borrowed
money from the bank to buy seeds and flood came and destroyed it. So because
they were scared they committed suicide. I was also in a place in Kogi, where a
storey building was under water.
“People that are not in IDP are the people
always struggling for relief materials. This flood is all over the world, Asia,
Europe, I know that Nigeria flooding is bad. And when we have such disaster
food is not the problem, do not make food your priority.
“If you eat once, thank God, I know that
none of you would die of hunger here. Before the middle of November, the
water would have receded.”