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BEAUFORT: Keluarga yang terjejas akibat banjir di sini dan di Membakut menerima bantuan kewangan kecemasan sebanyak RM1,300 daripada kerajaan Persekutuan dan Negeri.

Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor berkata daripada jumlah itu, RM1,000 adalah daripada Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (Nadma) dan RM300 daripada Yayasan Kebajikan Sabah (YKS).

Selain bantuan tunai, setiap keluarga yang telah dipindahkan ke pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) juga akan menerima bantuan makanan.

Ketua Menteri berkata demikian selepas melawat PPS Dewan Datuk Seri Panglima Mohd Dun Banir, yang kini menempatkan 147 keluarga yang terdiri daripada 412 mangsa di sini hari ini.

Tujuh PPS telah dibuka sejak banjir bermula pada 7 Mac, memberikan perlindungan kepada sejumlah 1,944 orang daripada 614 keluarga di sini.

Di PPS, Ketua Menteri menyampaikan bantuan dan berbual dengan mangsa banjir.

"Saya datang ke sini untuk berjumpa dengan mangsa-mangsa banjir sambil melihat sendiri keadaan di lapangan. Saya memberitahu mereka bahawa kerajaan memahami kesulitan mereka," katanya.

Ketua Menteri juga melawat kawasan bandar, yang masih ditenggelami air, di mana beliau diberi taklimat oleh Pegawai Daerah Mohd Nazri Ajun.

Hajiji telah mengarahkan Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran untuk membersihkan semua saluran air, terutamanya longkang-longkang untuk mengurangkan banjir pada musim hujan ini.

Ketua Menteri juga melawat PPS Dewan Kesenian Islam, Membakut, salah satu daripada empat PPS yang dibuka di daerah untuk memberikan bantuan serupa kepada mangsa banjir di sana.

PPS Membakut kini menampung kira-kira 278 keluarga yang terdiri daripada 836 mangsa.

Mengiringi Ketua Menteri adalah Setiausaha Negeri Datuk Seri Panglima Safar Untong, wakil rakyat dan Setiausaha Politik Kanan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin. 

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English version

BEAUFORT:  Families affected by flood here and in Membakut receives emergency cash assistance totalling RM1,300 from the Federal and State governments.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor said of the amount RM1,000 comes from the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) and RM300 from Yayasan Kebajikan Sabah (YKS).

Apart from the cash aids, each family who have been evacuated to the temporary evacuation centres (PPS) would also receive food assistance.

The Chief Minister said this after visiting PPS Dewan Datuk Seri Panglima Mohd Dun Banir, which currently housed 147 families comprising 412 victims here today.

Seven PPS have been opened since flood started on March 7 providing shelter to a total 1,944 people from 614 families here  

At the PPS, the Chief Minister presented the assistance and spoke with the flood victims.

"I came here to meet with the victims and personally see the situation on the ground. I assured them that the government understood their predicament," he said.

The Chief Minister also visited the town area, still submerged in water where he was briefed by District Officer Mohd Nazri Ajun.

Hajiji has directed the Irrigation and Drainage Department to clear all waterways, particularly drains in order to mitigate flooding during this wet season.

The Chief Minister also visited the  PPS Dewan Kesenian Islam, Membakut, one of  four PPS activated in the district to present similar assistance to flood victims there.

The Membakut PPS currectky housed some 278 familes comprising 836 victims.  

Accompanying the Chief Minister were State Secretary Datuk Seri Panglima Safar Untong, elected representatives and Prime Minister's Senior Political Secretary Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin.

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