The National Emergency Management Agency has deployed more staff from other zonal offices to assist in the intervention activities ongoing in the flooded areas in Borno State....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
NEMA said staff from Yola, Gombe, Jos, and the Abuja offices have been deployed to Maiduguri because of the overwhelming situation.
The NEMA spokesman, Manzo Ezekiel, who disclosed this to our correspondent on Monday also noted that the Director General of the agency, Zubaida Umar is also supervising the rescue and intervention activities in the state.
“The Director-General of NEMA, Zubaida Umar was here last week Tuesday, and she came here again on Sunday, and because of the overwhelming situation, she had to direct the closer offices to deploy some of their staff to beef up the intervention. We have staff from our Yola, Gombe, Jos, and Abuja offices here; we have almost about 20 staff that have been deployed to beef up our intervention.
“We also have our equipment here, we have our canoes, mobile water treatment plant, mobile intensive care unit ambulance that is on the ground. We have even life jackets for the use, of even the volunteers working with us. The governor was very happy with what NEMA has done, and he said the agency should increase capacity to coordinate all the intervention efforts so that everything will be streamlined, that we know where there is gap or strength, and where we can take to beef up one location or the other.”
Ezekiel highlighted that the DG of NEMA and the state Governor, Babagana Zulum visited some of the camps and NEMA’s warehouse.
“The dashboard for Maiduguri is that over two million people have been seriously affected by this incident, and this flooding cut across not less than four local government areas. People just say Maiduguri, but it’s not just in Maiduguri,” he added.
