MP Ameen calls on government to immediately assist flooded communities
St. t. Augustine Member of Parliament Khadijah Ameen is today calling on the government to immediately provide emergency social support and urgent clean up relief for communities affected by flooding as it is clear the government’s lack of foresight and proper planning has left tens of thousands literally in the cold.
The UNC’s Shadow Rural Development and Local Government Minister expressed these urgent calls as she continued visiting constituents affected by recent flood together with Councillors of the St. Augustine constituency
MP Ameen said it appears the government is doing below the bare minimum to get citizens’ lives back in order and that numerous government agencies are without leadership in this crisis.
The UNC Deputy Chairman who has been on the field over the last few days distributing meals and other relief items said that “throughout the country thousands are despondent and broken as they are without hot meals, without key grocery items which have been lost in the flood, no medication and not even a warm mattress to rest on”
MP Ameen said what is needed urgently is hot meals and grocery items for those still marooned and those whose groceries have been destroyed, assessments on homes with damaged furniture, appliances, and household items, assessments by National Self Help Commission on homes that received infrastructural damage and require Minor Repairs, disinfectants and manual labour to clean homes, yards and roadways of slush and silt and removal of truckloads of debris.
MP Ameen said the absence of government agencies on the ground is reflective of disconnect by the respective Ministers who appear to not have an appreciation of the reality on the ground and the crisis citizens are facing at this time.