The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA has restated its commitment to tackle any impending flood situation predicted in the 2019 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction and Annual Flood Outlook.
The Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, gave the assurance while declaring open a one-day national workshop on Flood Risk Mitigation, Preparedness and Response, in Abuja.
Maihaja said that the workshop was convened to provide the needed platform for principal actors in disaster management to collectively review the 2018 flood management operations.
He said that the impact of hydrological hazards on lives, property and environment depended on the level of preparedness, which to a large extent relied on efficient early warning systems.