National Emergency Management Agency. Photo: NEMA
The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Zubaida Umar, has urged residents of flood-prone communities across the country to heed early warning alerts and relocate to safer locations as the rainy season intensifies.
Umar advised in a statement issued by the agency’s Press Unit on Saturday, warning that the current period of heightened rainfall requires communities at risk to take proactive steps to protect lives and property.
According to the statement, the NEMA boss said the period of increased rainfall calls for the activation of community-level flood mitigation measures to reduce the impact of flooding.
She urged residents to heed early warning information issued by relevant government agencies and relocate to higher ground whenever there is a threat of flooding.
