Many residential buildings, schools and business places have been destroyed by windstorm that wreaked havoc on some parts of Lafia metropolis as other parts of the State..
Speaking on their ordeals, some residents of Lafia town, the Nasarawa State capital, said the windstorm caused massive damage on their livelihoods particularly their places of shelter.
One of the persons affected, Muhammad Iliyasu Garba, a journalist with Breeze FM, a Lafia-based private radio station, said the windstorm blew off the roof top of his residence destroying it completely; rendering him homeless.
Devastated by the level of destruction, Mohammed is calling for support from the state authorities and philanthropists to enable him fix back his house.
Garba however is full of gratitude to Allah for saving him and his life from the devastation..
The visibly disturbed journalists told Krestnews that it was not long that he was able to roof the house and that given the state of the economy, except assisted he will not be able to fix back the house anytime soon.
Krestnews also reports that also badly destroyed was the State owned polytechnic otherwise called Also at the Isa Mustapha Agwai l Polytechnic Lafia,.
There, several school buildings such as lecture halls, hostels and offices were equally badly destroyed.
Mukhtar Wakeel, Director of Public Relations and Protocol of the institution, in a statement made available to the media in Lafia disclosed that not less than five school structures including the administrative block of the Institution were badly affected by windstorm accompanied by heavy rain that on Thursday night
Other buildings affected by the windstorm according to Malam WKeel are the Schools of Environmental science, Architectural Technology, Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, hostels, Library annex as well as electric poles within the school environment.
The statement quoted the Acting Rector of the Polytechnic, Doctor Nurudeen Mu’azu Maifata lamenting the level of devastation, saying that the storm has wrecked great havoc on the institution’s facilities, adding however that necessary action would be taken to contain future ocurrence.
Doctor Maifata said the management was working round the clock in order to restore normalcy and find lasting solution to the windstorm tragedy.
The Rector was accompanied during the assessment tour by his management team including deans and directors of the institution.
The Acting Rector expressed readiness to address the damage caused swiftly so as not to stall academic and administrative activities in the Polytechnic.
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