The Bayelsa State Post-Flood Management Committee yesterday said it received N500 million from donors and not N15 billion, as alleged by the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The committee explained that it received N500 million, donated to the state government by a philanthropic organisation, Mr. Mike Adenuga Foundation, and additional N35 million for logistics and administrative cost from the government.
BSPMC’s Chairman, Chief Francis Doukpola, in a statement in Yenagoa, the state capital, said it was wrong for any person or group of persons to make such weighty allegations without facts.
He challenged those behind the allegation to provide the proof of any transaction that led to the collection of such amount by the committee or state government.
Doukpola said the money received was used for interventions in most of the affected places in seven local government areas.
To alleviate the suffering of the people, the chairman said the committee started some projects, including the distribution of cement in the seven local government areas affected by the flood, besides Brass.
He said: “Also, 400 bags of cement were given to each of the communities to be distributed among the most affected persons, with emphasis on the less-privileged with mud houses.”