Flood: NAICOM, NAIC Assure Insured Victims Of Prompt Claim Payment
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) have sympathised with victims of recent flood disaster across the country assuring the insured of Prompt claim settlement.
NAICOM’s Spokesperson, Mr Rasaaq Salami In a statement assured all those affected who insured against such misfortunes of the Commission’s commitment towards ensuring prompt settlement of their claims by insurance companies.
In the same vein, Assistant General Manager Corporate Services, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), Mrs. Magdalene Omosimua, in a statement said that “NAIC sympathises with flood victims across the country.
“The Corporation shares the pains and agony of victims and stand with them at this trying period.
“Therefore, as a caring and responsive organization, we are using this medium to assure our insured clients that their genuine claims will be given utmost urgent attention to enable them go back to living their normal productive lives.
“In the same vein, NAIC wishes to advise that properties and business endeavours of our teeming citizens be promptly insured to guarantee sustainability of existing jobs, income stabilization, food security, poverty alleviation and wealth creation.”
Meanwhile, the death toll from heavy flooding in Nigeria has now surpassed 600, with more than 1 million people displaced from their homes. The flooding has covered farms and roads and slowed shipments of food and fuel. Authorities are struggling to free up the gridlock, as a jump in prices is already making life more expensive for Nigerians.
At Dantata Bridge in coastal Kogi State, tons of food and fuel stretch for many kilometers, far from their destinations, as the impact of Nigeria’s worst flooding in 10 years unfolds.
The bridge is a link line that allows the crisscross of essentials between northern and southern Nigeria, including Abuja, the capital.
But weeks of severe flooding in Kogi State have washed away farmland and affected access roads, including Dantata Bridge.
Abuja resident Bashiru Usman told Voice of America that the effect is seriously being felt in Abuja, adding that “We are struggling to get the fuel,” said Usman, who works as a petrol dealer. “As you can see from the queue, there’s no fuel. It’s only one filling station in the whole area that sells fuel.”
Authorities said more than two million people in 33 of Nigeria’s 36 states have been affected.
The flooding is blamed on torrential rainfalls that started in July and the release of water from Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam.
But experts blamed the incident on Nigeria’s poor urban planning scheme made matters worse.
In some instances, floodwaters covered rooftops, leaving communities completely submerged.
