Flood: Insurance coy assures Sokoto farmers of compensation

From Abubakar Auwal, Sokoto

An insurance company has assured farmers, who took its policy and were affected by the flood disaster in Sokoto state that their losses would be restored in good time.

The Managing Director of the company, Mr Kenneth Egbaran gave the assurance while interacting with representatives of farmers groups in the state.

According to him, the affected farmers would be settled at the end of the rainy season.

"We take claim of settlement very seriously. That is why we are here despite the coronavirus challenges.

"We are committed to ensuring your losses are restored in good time. We will take you back to your previous position," he reassured them.

Egbaran, however, could not give the exact number of the affected farmers, saying their consultant was going round to take their inventory and assess the level of damage done to each of the farmers by the flood.

In an interview with newsmen, the state Chairman of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Salihu Ibrahim, noted that 80 percent of their members were affected by the flood.

He thanked the managing director for the visit, which he described as the first of its kind ever paid to them by an insurance company.

Also speaking, the state chairman of the Maize Farmers Association, Abubakar Danfuloti Tambuwal, said they have about 3000 members out of which only 350 were not affected by the flood.

"All our members with farmland along the riverine areas were affected," he said

The team visited some of the flooded farmlands at the Kwalkwalawa area in Wamakko Local Government Area of the state.