NEMA warns States, communities to prepare for floods

The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA has warned of increased flood hence urged States yet to set up State Emergency Management agencies and Local Emergency Management committees at the local levels to do so immediately.

In an interview with a private national television the Director General of the agency Mustapha Ahmed while acknowledging the limitations of NEMA, insisted that the bulk of the burden would be borne by the State and local government Emergency Management agencies, whom they are monitoring closely.

Concerns have been raised over the high volume of rainfall as report shows 19 states and 56 communities have already been impacted by this year’s rainfall.

This raises the question of what the agency charged with the responsibility of disaster management is doing to mitigate a recurrence of last years unfortunate incident.

The Director General wants governors to set aside money from the ecological funds to mitigate flood disasters.

In order to boost food production impacted by 2022 flood, the DG says measures are already in place.

Nigeria is considered one of the countries most prone to floods in the West African Region.

The catastrophe encountered in last year’s flood on states across the country cannot be forgotten.