Commissioner Dau Akoi: More than 20,000 people displaced by flood in Twic East
August 9, 2016 (SSB) — Twic East County commissioner in Jonglei state says more than 20,000 people have been displaced by the floods in the area.
Yearly, thousands of people faced server flood in the county because the county official says Twic East County is a lowland lying on the eastern bank of Nile River in Jonglei state.
In 2014 more than thousands household become homeless, four primary health Care Units were destroyed following three days consecutive heavy rain in October.
County’s commissioner Dau Akoi Jurkuch says that the county’s villages are always affected by heavy rainfalls and River Nile overflow in July and August of every year.
Akoi says that seven villages of Lual-Ajokbil, area of Pinyleek, Piomhol, Bongbrong and heading to Pathian and Padiing are seriously affected by flood.
He says crops were destroyed exception of sorghum [dura]. He is saying, most displaced people have moved to the higher grounds.
“Last week heavy rain affected Nyuak, Nyuak payam especially, when your house has been occupied by the water then you move to the next one in the high ground, so they don’t move further. The assessment team is still there but we just make an estimate, approximately that 23,000 according to the villages have been affected.”
Mr. Akoi says county officials are trying to mobilize community members so that they make small dike around residential areas, as an initiative to help the community from water diseases.
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