Floods: NSCDC deploys disaster officers to Anambra, Kogi others

THE Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC) Corps Abdullahi Muhammadu Gana, has deployed officers of the Corps Disaster Management Department to all states affected by recent flood disaster in the country. The affected states include Kogi, Niger, Delta and Anambra states.

This was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Media Assistant to the Commandant-General, Mr Ekunola Gbenga.

The statement said the Corps Disaster Managers are to assist victims affected by the recent flood devastation in the affected states and also in all disaster-prone areas in the country to handle victims of floods that have ravaged some states of the federation

Gbenga said a team of trained and experienced disaster case managers are on now ground in the states in collaboration with National Emergency Management Agency and other agencies in helping those impacted by the devastating floods in affected states.

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The CG in deploying the officers said: “I have tasked senior disaster managers to travel across the affected states to focus on impacted communities; we are getting bad floods in those states, therefore, need to have disasters officers in these areas in case disaster strikes”.

He added that the Corps would set up disaster risk reduction centres in all the states, saying it was extremely critical to train Community leaders in disaster risk reduction so as to form disaster committees in the communities.