…Vows To Address Environmental Challenges

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said that it will continue to keep in touch with all stakeholders with a view to addressing the various environmental challenges facing the country.

The Acting Zonal Coordinator of the Agency, North-West zone, Alhaji Musa Ilallah, disclosed this at a sensitisation workshop held in Kano recently, for secondary school students as a part of activities to commemorate the World Disaster Risk Reduction Day.

Ilallah said the agency in collaboration with other stakeholders had organised series of training and sensitisation campaigns aimed at promoting the needed consciousness on reducing risk.

In another development, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has urged state governments to take urgent steps to check indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drains and water ways.

The call became imperative, following the need to avoid the menace of flooding in the country.

The acting zonal coordinator asserts that most of the cases of flood are man-made because the citizenry had refused to take care of her environment adequately as is seen in the attitude of dumping refuse into drainages.

He therefore, expressed the readiness of his agency, to continuously draw the attention of various state governments on the dangers of dumping refuse in drainages, especially in state capitals and other major cities or towns.

According to him, the agency is ready to support state governments in order to find a permanent solution to environmental problems

Sylvia ThankGod-Amadi