By Tina Abeku, Abuja
05 September 2023 |
8:12 pm
Dwelling Committee on Emergency and Catastrophe Preparedness has stated that Nigeria’s preparedness ahead opening of Cameroon’s Lagdo dam is commendable Chairman of the committee, Rt.Hon. Joseph Bassey, pointed that giant flooding ravages neighbouring states in Nigeria on every occasion the dam is opened creating pretty just a few emergency disorders. He acknowledged this whereas on an oversight search recommendation from to the…
Dwelling Committee on Emergency and Catastrophe Preparedness has stated that Nigeria’s preparedness ahead opening of Cameroon’s Lagdo dam is commendable
Chairman of the committee, Rt.Hon. Joseph Bassey, pointed that giant flooding ravages neighbouring states in Nigeria on every occasion the dam is opened creating pretty just a few emergency disorders.
He acknowledged this whereas on an oversight search recommendation from to the federal ministry of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, in Abuja.
“We are right here as a part of the committee’s oversight of the humanitarian actions of the Ministry.
“No one can predict danger, but preparedness determines how successfully the implications can even be managed. Attributable to this the dwelling committee applauds the humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation minister for her readiness for humanitarian crises,” Bassey stated.
On her part, the minister, Dr. Betta Edu, stated the ministry is dedicated to pressure the imaginative and prescient of President Bola Tinubu to decrease the struggling of Nigerians, guaranteeing that Nigerians are taken out of humanitarian crises and poverty” and enhance coordination and preparedness for the flooding that can likely discover the opening of the Lagdo Dam or any pretty just a few flooding which would possibly per chance per chance lead to humanitarian crises.
She notes that prevention of lack of lives and properties are key hence, advocates for the building of buffer dams in the nation to curtail low flooding.
“We must always consist of this in the 2024 charge range, she stated.
Dr. Edu disclosed the Federal Govt Council’s, (FEC), approval of flooding response paperwork and entreated the committee to be a part of the personnel for field operations to enable them t survey issues for themselves, a observation signed by her Special Assistant on Media, Rasheed Zubair, contains
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