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He said: “We have advised people living in flood-prone areas to vacate those places, based on NIMET’s predictions that there would be heavy rainfall this year but many people did not heed our advice

The statement reads: “It beats the imagination of the Congress that our politicians are busy quarreling, engaging in fisticuffs and casting aspersions on themselves in both electronic and print media just because of 2015 elections at a time when many Nigerians have died on our dilapidated roads and as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency, ocean surges and floods

At the ceremony, which took place at the cargo terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Sani-Sidi disclosed that between June and October this year, Nigeria experienced unprecedented floods, which affected about 7.7 million people, displacing 2.1 million while 363 people lost their lives

Ouedraogo said that providing assistance to alleviate the sufferings of ECOWAS citizens affected by humanitarian challenge “is a core mandate” of the Commission under the regional Protocol relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Peacekeeping and Security