While relief workers continue to transport food to Mayotte, affected by Cyclone Chido, a Mayotte MP denounced, this Thursday, December 26, the type of product distributed to the population.
A cry of anger. Twelve days after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, the National Rally MP, Anchya Bamana, judged this Thursday, December 26 that the products distributed in the archipelago were inappropriate for the needs of the victims.
“What are we going to do with this flour, oil, sugar and noodles when we don’t have electricity in our house? Do you really think it’s a food basket for people who are suffering?” she declared on the set of Mayotte La 1ère.
Instead, she urges the authorities to distribute more “canned sardines and tuna, canned beans (and) eggs”, in order to “enable the Mahorais not to be undernourished in these times of crisis” . “There is an urgent need to change this food basket,” she insisted.
The most devastating cyclone that Mayotte has experienced in 90 years caused colossal damage on December 14 in the poorest department in France, where emergency services have since been hard at work helping residents. For the moment, the human toll, still very provisional, shows 39 deaths and 4,136 minor injuries and 124 serious injuries, according to the counts published Tuesday, December 24 by the prefect of Mayotte.
65 tons of food already distributed
In total, 390,000 liters of water and 65 tonnes of food have already been distributed to the population since the end of the purple vigilance, the authorities said on Monday. The same day, the prefect of Mayotte indicated on Facebook that other foodstuffs, in addition to flour, had also been distributed to the victims, such as sugar, milk, rice, and even sardines.
Also on Facebook, the prefecture of Mayotte announced Monday the arrival at the port of Longoni of ten containers of food including products such as biscuits, pasta, prepared meals and preserves, as well as 35 containers of water.
But in addition to the delivery of food, RN MP Anchya Bamana insisted on the urgency of restoring the electricity network in the archipelago. “That all companies should urgently be called upon in partnership with EDM (Electrcité de Mayotte) so that all homes can have electricity,” she declared on Martinique La 1ère. “Because without electricity, we cannot cook flour. Without electricity, the Mahorais are cut off from the world.”
