VP Osinbajo visits IDPs and Flooded Areas in Benue State on 06/09/2017

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Remarks by His Excellency, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, Vice President of Nigeria, at the visit to IDPs and Flooded Areas in Benue on the 6th of September, 2017

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One of the things that the President is concerned about is how we can put a permanent stop to this flooding once and for all. That is why I am here with His Excellency, the Governor, to look around and to look at the solutions we can come up with.

In particular, the idea of dredging the Benue River is very important, creating jobs, and as the young people have asked, constructing drainage; we must provide that as well.

We must also look for realistic solutions to ending this problem once and for all, and try our very best to provide all that is required.

I am so happy to see all of the efforts that the government of Benue State, led by Governor Samuel Ortom, has already made to see that this facility is running well.

I want to thank the Nigerian Air Force, too, for providing the medical facilities here as well. And I am very happy to see that we are all doing our best to cooperate with the government to ensure that during this period, which is a temporary period, we can take care of everybody who needs to be taken care of, and we will provide a permanent solution.

At the end of the day, the intention of the government is not just to take care of the flooding and their victims, it is to provide real opportunities for the people, that is the desire of the Federal Government, and, like I said, we are working day after day on these issues.

We will do everything that the government has promised to do for the people of Nigeria, and I can assure you.