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The National Emergency Management Agency has appealed to South-East residents to relocate from low-land and flood-prone areas to forestall the loss of lives and property.
The NEMA South-East Coordinator, Mr Fred Anusim, made the appeal in an interview with News Newsmen
He noted that residents and local authorities in the zone should take the National Hydrological Agency warning of more rains and flooding seriously.
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Anusim said emergency management was everybody’s responsibility and as such everybody and government should work to ensure that flood and erosion devastation was checked.
He stated, “From the flood impact assessment done in the past two weeks in over a dozen communities and farm settlements in the zone, the agency noticed that flooding and erosion menace due to more rain and saturation of ground water were on the increase.
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“NEMA is appealing to the people living in the various flood prone communities and settlements, which we have visited and enlightened, to do the needful and relocate to avoid losses in any form.’
“We want state and local governments to assist us to ensure that our people living in low-land and flood plain or prone areas relocate to their relatives and friends’ homes or make-shift holding camps created by the government temporarily,” he said.
