0:022 the roads to murray community have been flooded and the only means of transportation are kenny's and flying boats
0:14  with several passengers on board with johnny for five hours on water many communities along the bank of river
0:22  niger have been affected by flood this year the impact of flooding moragi community is more and the people here say they have lost
0:31  almost everything to the disaster issues of hygiene are also of concern to the residents
0:39  40 to 45 percent of muregi people now are part of qara state because no way
0:47  nowhere to be found those people some of our properties are lost why some of our beauties
0:56  are during the recent briefing at the government house in mina the united states capital
1:04 attributes this year's flood situation in the state to excessive release of water from the dams we suffered a lot of floods
1:13 floods we have never experienced in the past i know we've had floods in the past but this year the flood is something else for example the dam the kanjidan
1:21 had refused uh had to spill over 6000 kilometers of water per second it is the
1:29 first time this is the first time they are opening all four spillways at least over 17 000 people across the
1:36 state are reportedly displaced as a result of flooding forcing the government to release over 600 million naira
1:44 for the relocation of some communities what we expect to have is that no
1:53 very soon who have new queso and new
2:00 in place so that this is your perennial flooding of those areas would
2:08 have been taken care of moregae community is predominantly an agrarian community with many residents engaged in rice farming and fishing
2:16 dsbut the flood this year has crippled their means of livelihood the people here say life is not easy for them
2:24 dsthere is no health care there is also no quality education they are really
2:31 dsgoing through tough times they hope that the state government and the federal government will come to their aid
2:38 dsespecially in relocating them to the new site that has long been secured from murrigi
2:45 dsin niger state emperor simon channels television news