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June 11, 2019
TheNational Emergency Management Agency NEMA has advised people living in urbanareas to evacuate refuse on waterways as well as those in flood prune areas tomove to higher grounds.
Italso urged them to avoid indiscriminate disposal of refuse in drainages forfree flow of water.
HeadNEMA, Minna Operations Office in Charge of Niger and Kwara, Lydia Wagami, gavethe advice today at a one-day stakeholders consultative meeting on 2019 floodpreparedness, mitigation and response in Minna.
Wagamisaid the meeting was for stakeholders to discuss the potential threats of floodin the two states and to strategies on how to mitigate flooding in 2019.
Sheexplained that the forum would draw out modalities and itemise the roles andresponsibilities with first flood respondent agencies on how to reduce theeffects of flood.Also, stateInspector, NIMET, Pwajok Tok said the late onset of rain and early predictionsby the agency were to allow flood prone areas take early measures to avertlosses.