Metro Nigeria: 11 States Have No Emergency Agency- NEMA

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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has lamented that despite the climate change and global warming challenges facing Nigeria, only 25 states presently have emergency management structure to manage disaster.

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NEMA’s Deputy Director, Planning, Research and Forecasting, Kayode Fagbemi, made this disclosure while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day workshop on “strengthening disaster risk management and recovery project” in Abuja on Tuesday.

Fagbemi said: “You know, we are in a federation and disaster management is not on the exclusive list like the police, like the Army. So, each state is expected to have their own state emergency management agency, and we have been doing advocacy, visiting governors.

“We are only encouraging them because you can’t force it on them. They have their own executive power. They have their own budget. We will continue to encourage them that they need state emergency management agency.”

He said though many of the governors have seen the need to build their own state emergency management agencies, NEMA has opened up six zonal offices and operation offices to get closer to communities.
 
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