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NEMA
Yola, Oct. 9, 2016 ( NAN) The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has opened new operation offices in Adamawa, Edo and Kano states in its efforts to bring disaster management closer to communities and reduce response time, its Director General, Muhammad Sani Sidi, announced.
Sidi made the announcement in a statement issued by Mr Sani Datti, the Media and Public Relations Officer of the agency on Sunday in Yola.
He stated that “as the agency saddled with responsibility of coordinating disaster management and related matters, NEMA is making efforts to build stakeholders’ capacity and appropriate mechanism to address various facets of disaster risk reduction.”
He explained that the mechanisms being put in place to reduce disaster risks were prevention, mitigation, preparedness, quick response and recovery.
He stated that to achieve these, there was need for cooperation and collaboration by stakeholders at the Federal, State, Local Government and Community levels.
He added that “requests for NEMA’s intervention, even for minor incidents across the country is a testimony to the level of confidence placed on the agency by members of the public.”
He then commended the governments of Kano and Adamawa states for donating office spaces and warehouses to facilitate the opening of the new operation offices.
The operation offices will be responsible for taking disaster risk reduction to grassroots, capacity building programmes for stakeholders and coordinating government agencies and non-governmental organisations involved in disaster management in the states, he noted.
He said that with the creation of Adamawa, Kano and Edo operation offices, the agency now has nine operation offices and six zonal
offices across the country. (NAN)
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(Edited by Abdulfatah Babatunde/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu)