 The federal government has given palliatives to victims of the 2022 flood in seven local government areas of Edo state. Presenting the palliatives to the operations officer of NEMA in the state, the representative of the minister for Niger Delta Affairs said the government will continue to seek improvement to plight of the people. Among the 31 items made available by the federal government to help cushion the devastating effect of the flood on the affected people, food items, detergents, building materials and livelihood equipment, such as grinding and sewing machines, buckets, as well as cooking utensils. It is worldly of note that Niger Delta is always worth heat by flood in the country because of its topography and location. Of course, quite upon this ugly situation, President Muhammad al-Buhari in his concern and love for the people of the Niger Delta region approved that relief materials should be given to the flood victims in the states of the Niger Delta to alleviate the challenges that came with the flood. This is in addition to earlier assistance to the affected states. I want to thank everyone that made this possible, the ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, NDC, NEMA. I want to appreciate you for this gesture because this is the provision of relief materials to flood victims. We talk about local government areas. We go along the alleviating their plight. Once again, I want to say thank you. We are happy to identify with them because this is something that concerns our region and of course that's one of our mandates really, bringing support to the people of the region. So yes, I'm here on behalf of my executive director, Nassan Admin, put in our trust already and we are happy that at least there's some kind of relief that's been brought to our people. We have, NEMA has given palliative, I think we have done that like three times now, we have given palliative to the affected local government. We have done that immediately during the course of the flood and almost after the flood we gave them palliative. These were items we have seen here from the NDC, it is their own effort to assist those affected, 222 floods. We have a list of affected persons of each local government. This list was as a result of the assessment we carried out in collaboration with the local government officials. We have lists and we are going to work with the local government officials in distributing these items to the beneficiaries.