The Niger State Deputy Governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, has said that more non-indigenes were affected in the Mokwa floods as people from over 15 states who were living in Mokwa were affected.
Garba, who stated this when he received a condolence team from Veritas University, Abuja, noted that it was because of the high number of non-indigenes that the state highlighted the disaster as a national disaster.
“The Mokwa flood incident is a national disaster. People do not understand when we say this; they assume it is because it occurred in Niger state. If you take the statistics, I do not have it offhand; you will see that a lot of non-indigenes lost their lives in the flood.
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“The non-indigenes that were affected are more than the indigenes. You have those from Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and other tribes there. That is why we called it a national disaster,” he explained.
Garba called for prayers from the various incidents and disasters happening across the country calling on all religious institutions and leaders to pray for God’s mercy.