Eight million people prone to flood disaster in Lagos – NEMA

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Unless urgent preemptive steps are taken, no fewer than eight million residents of Lagos State may experience flood disaster according to the National Emergency Relief Agency(NEMA).

Alhaji Ibrahim Farinloye, the Acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, made this known at the flag-off of the “Door to Door 2020 Flood Awareness and Sensitisation Campaign on Prevention, Management and Mitigation of Flood” in Mushin.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the awareness campaigns in high risk flood prone areas in Lagos, which kicked off from Mushin was accompanied with a walk show.

Farinloye said that the agency was in partnership with the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Red Cross, and public health practitioners.

According to him, this is to ensure that critical people, especially women and children are well equipped with adequate information in case of flood.

“There have been predictions of flooding in certain areas of Lagos State.

“So, the Federal Government wants us to go and sensitise people, because we do not want to record any unfortunate incident, especially loss of lives and property.

“We want to empower people with information against losses. So far so good, we have assessed close to eight million people to be vulnerable to flood disaster in Lagos State.

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