In
its effort to bring disaster management closer to communities and reduce
response time, the National Emergency Management Agency has opened new operation
offices in Kano, Adamawa and Edo states, the Director General, Muhammad Sani
Sidi disclosed at the weekend.
He
said as the Federal agency saddled
with the responsibility of coordinating disaster management and related
matters in the country, NEMA is making conscious efforts to build stakeholders'
capacity and devise an appropriate mechanism to address the various
facets of disaster risk reduction, namely- prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, response and recovery. He said to achieve all this, there
is the need for cooperation and collaboration of all stakeholders at the
Federal, State, Local Government and Community levels.
He
said requests for NEMA’s intervention, even for minor incidents, across the
country, is a testimony to the level of confidence placed on the Agency by
members of the public.
Sani Sidi commended the kind gestures of Kano and Adamawa State
governments for donating office spaces and warehouses to facilitate the opening
of the operation offices in the states.
The operation offices will be responsible for taking disaster risk
reduction to grassroots, capacity building programmes for stakeholders and
coordinating government agencies and non- governmental organisations involved
in the disaster management in the states.
With the creation of Adamawa, Kano and Edo Operation
Offices, the agency now has a total of nine (9) operation offices and six (6)
zonal offices across the country.
Sani
Datti
Media
and Public Relations
9th
October, 2016