The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday called on the Federal Ministry of Environment to speed up construction works on Alore/Abatasunkere channelisation project in Ilorin, Kwara State. Saraki lamented the abandonment of the channelisation project midway as a result of which flooding is ravaging the people of the community.
The Senate President made the call in Ilorin while distributing cash gifts, totalling N5 million to residents of Abata Asunkere/Alore community who were recently displaced by a devastating flood.
Represented by the director-general of his constituency office in Ilorin, Alh Musa Abdullahi, Saraki blamed the recent flooding experienced in the community on the non-completion of the channelisation project.
During the incident about 50 houses were destroyed by the flood which rendered scores homeless. Saraki recalled that he facilitated the project to the area during his first tenure in the National Assembly between 2011- 2015 when he was chairman Senate…
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