The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mustapha Ahmed, has urged Nigerians to prepare for severe flooding in 2023 as predictions from relevant agencies reveal there will be severe flooding across the country.
A statement issued by the agency remarked that Ahmed disclosed this during a two-day Experts’ Technical Meeting on 2023 Climate-Related Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Strategies in Abuja.
He said that this had earlier been revealed in the seasonal climate forecasts and annual flood outlooks by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency.
He said: “The flood disaster in 2022 was an eye-opener. However, the agency would spread early warning messages to states and local government areas and the Federal Capital Territory. We have started early this year, as we are ready for early warning and early action. We will bombard every citizen, state and local government with this information as we want them to know that it is serious and we will not keep quiet, because we want them to know that there will be flood this year.”
He advised those living in riverine areas to start taking precautionary measures to prevent them from being affected by the flood.
In the same vein, the Director-General of Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, Clement Nze, revealed that 178 LGAs in 32 states and the FCT had been predicted to encounter severe flooding in 2023.
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