By: Admin
The Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Special Duties and Emergency Relief has called on the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA to speed up its emergency response to flood-hit areas in Rivers State.
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.
Promise Nwankwo, who is the lawmaker representing Oyigbo Constituency at the Rivers State House of Assembly said the Rivers State House of Assembly wants NEMA to move into the communities affected by flood to ease the sufferings of the people.
He said they provided a channel for NEMA to reach out to the different communities affected by floods in different local government areas in Rivers State.
”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 also queried the NEMA Coordinator over their mode of operation 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.
