Rainy season: Eight Zamfara LGAs on flood-risk alert—NEMA

Eight section authorities areas of Zamfara are predicted to beryllium affected by moderate-flooding successful the 2024 rainy season, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has disclosed.

The Director-General of the agency, Hajiya Zubaida Umar, disclosed this successful Gusau connected Thursday astatine the sensitisation programme for the 2024 down-scaling of flood aboriginal informing strategies for aboriginal actions.

Umar, represented by the Director, ICT, Sani Alhaji-Lokoja, said the affected LGAs include: Bungudu, Bakura, Gummi, Gusau, Maradun, Shinkafi, Talata Mafara and Zurmi.

“These LGAs are already listed successful the earlier NEMA’s connection to the authorities government.

“This underscores the downscaling and sensitization programme of the 2024 flood aboriginal informing strategies successful Zamfara.

“I americium truthful calling for enactment from each stakeholders to cascade this inaugural to the grassroots,’’ she explained.

According to the NEMA boss, the bureau recovered it indispensable to accent that absorption of catastrophe hazard successful modern times hinges connected community-wide participation, leaving nary 1 behind.

Umar added, “As we ever emphasize, “disaster absorption is everyone’s business.

“We indispensable enactment unneurotic to safeguard communities astatine risk, support captious infrastructure and enactment uninterrupted socio-economic activities successful Zamfara.

“This is the guaranteed way of driving socio-economic maturation and improvement successful enactment with the renewed anticipation docket of the Federal Government nether President Bola Tinubu.

“It is my anticipation that this lawsuit volition spell a agelong mode successful reducing the impacts of the annually recurring floods and to safeguard the backstage and communal livelihoods of the bully radical of Zamfara.’’ .

In his remarks, the Secretary to the State Government, Malam Abubakar Nakwada, described the programme arsenic timely and a invited development.

Nakwada described the flood arsenic a precise unfortunate disaster, adding, ”therefore, this programme is to empower our radical to instrumentality aboriginal informing actions precise seriously.

“I americium utilizing this mean to explicit the readiness of the authorities authorities nether Gov. Dauda Lawal to proceed collaborating with NEMA to instrumentality catastrophe hazard absorption measures successful the state.

“We are going to marque definite that each the accusation shared from this lawsuit scope each stakeholders crossed the state/’’

Other speakers were the Commissioner for Humanitarian and Relief Matters, Alhaji Salisu Musa, Emir of Bungudu, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, Director-General and State Fire Service, Abdullahi Jibo, among others.

They each pledged their enactment to the sensitisation programme connected aboriginal informing actions astatine the grassroots.