Ugochukwu Iwuchukwu
The Chairman of Rivers State House Committee on Special Duties and Emergency Relief Promise Nwankwo stated this during a courtesy visit to NEMA office in Port Harcourt.
”What we want them to do immediately is to hasten every action they are doing, because already the flood is here. So we can be waiting and be listening to excuses. The time for excuses has gone. Everybody should be on their feet now. We want them to reach out to those communities in various local government areas because we have provided NEMA a channel to reach out to the LGA chairmen that are experiencing flooding in their areas”. he said
Other committee members Hon.Solomon Wami and Hon. Chibudom Ezu to the NEMA office also queried the NEMA Coordinator over their modus operandi in Rivers State.
They said they want NEMA to do more to cushion the effects of flooding among the victims in different local government areas.
In his response, the South-South Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Walson Brandon, attributed insecurity to the challenges facing the agency in discharging their duties.
Walson Brandon also lament the poor structure of emergency response at the local government-level across Rivers State.
He said that the local government chairmen are not making any effort to assist NEMA in discharging their duties.
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