Flood: NEMA tasks Benue on early warning, evacuation, emergency response

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has called connected the Benue State Government to intensify flood preparedness and amended coordination among exigency effect agencies arsenic rainfall persists crossed the state.

The agency’s Director-General, Zubaida Umar, made the telephone during a full-scale flood effect simulation workout held successful Makurdi, wherever exigency absorption stakeholders assessed their readiness to respond to imaginable flood disasters.

Represented by NEMA’s Director of Search and Rescue, Usman Bature, Umar said Benue’s geographical features, including its stream systems, floodplains and communities situated on the River Benue and its tributaries, accrued the state’s vulnerability to flooding.

She stressed the value of maintaining aboriginal informing systems, ensuring effectual coordination and facilitating the timely evacuation of residents successful susceptible communities, successful enactment with the 2026 flood outlook.

“This workout is not simply a objection of instrumentality oregon procedures. It is an accidental to test, nether realistic conditions, however rapidly and efficaciously ...