Lois Otse Adams
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has blamed State Governments, whose States have been ravaged by floods for not heeding warning signs.
This is as NEMA disclosed that more than 300 people have so far been killed in flood disasters across Nigeria in 2022.
Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed made the disclosure at a strategic workshop with stakeholders on disaster risk reduction and management held in Abuja on Wednesday.
Ahmed said over 50 flood disaster alerts were received by the agency on a daily basis, with more than 100 communities affected, adding that the numbers have been increasing by the day.
The NEMA boss said the 2022 flood disaster will be worse than that of 2012. That In 2012, at least 363 people were reportedly killed and over 2.1 million people were displaced by floods.
The NEMA boss blamed State Governments for not heeding the warnings, which he said makes disaster reduction and management very difficult.
