In a proactive measure to mitigate damage by anticipated floods, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), is deploying search and rescue equipment consumables to its operational bases across the country.
Its Director-General, Mrs Zubaida Umar, announced the directive after inspecting the outfit’s warehouse in Abuja on Wednesday.
Among the items being deployed are life-saving equipment such as mobile water purification facility, mobile incident command vehicles, incident response vehicles, life jackets and other essential gadgets.
Umar underscored the critical need for timely disaster response, stressing the importance of proactive measures such as prepositioning equipment and training personnel to operate life-saving assets during emergencies.
As part of the measures, Umar also directed regular stocktaking of relief items in NEMA warehouses nationwide, including monitoring expiration dates, to ensure timely deployment to those in need in the event of an emergency.
The move marks the DG’s first major directive since assuming office as boss of the disaster prevention and management agency a few weeks ago.
Flooding has claimed millions of lives in the last hundred years alone, more than any other weather phenomenon.
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