EMA URGES COMMUNITIES LOCATED ALONG RIVERS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS TO RELOCATE.

The National Emergency Management Authority NEMA has called
on states and local governments to relocate communities located
along Rivers and flood prone areas. This is to avert flood disaster.
The statement below...
"The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has again
advised states and local governments to immediately relocate
residents of communities along rivers, waterways and flood-prone
areas to safer grounds to avoid unnecessary loss of lives and
properties.
This warning become indispensable as result of heavy rains and
the devastating affect of floods that have been witnessed in most
of the communities along rivers, waterways and flood prone areas
in the recent time, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani
Sidi has said.
He disclosed that since the Agency issued flood early warning
alert, it has embarked on mitigation and preventive measures
against the hazard by organizing workshops on flood awareness/
sensitization campaign through its six zonal offices and six
operation offices in the country.
He urged state and local government authorities to always march
early warning with early action by introducing flood control
programmes such as clearing of drainages and canals to ensure
free flow of water, construction of new drainages where necessary,
preventing buildings on waterways and relocating those living
along flood plains to safer areas.
He further said state and local governments should ensure
adequate and proper refuse dumping sites from where they would
be evacuated regularly.

Sani Datti
Snr. Information Officer
8th September 2015