The Niger State government Thursday sought the support of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to ameliorate some emergency situation that has been ravaging the State for the past 6-7 years.
It also pleaded with the agency to support in solving 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in a various camps across the state.
The Deputy Governor, Yakubu Garba, made the plead when he visited the Director General of NEMA, Abib Ahmed in Abuja.
Garba, while speaking with the Press on the sidelines shortly after the meeting said the essence of visiting the NEMA was to acquaint the director-general with some emergency situations.
His words: “Niger State has been peeved with the issues of security of which I can’t disclose here.”
“Aside that, the weather forecast of this year, there is the adverse consequence of flooding which we have been witnessing in Niger State.
“So we are here to brief DG NEMA to know the latitude of this consequences as it affects our people and see how we can collaborate to ameliorate this situation.”
“We have begun sensitisation to alert our people that this very year flooding may likely be different from the ones we have witnessed and the need for them to leave the affected areas in order to save lives and properties. And this has been ongoing.”
“We have about 5,000 to 6,000 IDPs, but God willing we are doing everything humanly possible to ensure the situation is been curtailed,” Garba added.
Responding Ahmed said the agency understood the architecture of disaster management.
He noted: “They are also doing quite a lot, they are clearing the drainages, water channels and they are also doing something before NEMA comes. So we can see seriousness, the states are becoming more proactive.”
“We have always been collaborating. We have always been partnering he’s here. We cannot allow the distress to continue being a bad situation will always give them all the support we can as federal government will.”
