NEMA Partners Sokoto Stakeholders On Disaster Management

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has engaged stakeholders in Sokoto concerning disaster management in the middle of the global pandemic; COVID-19.
The NEMA Director-General, AVM Muhammadu Alhaji Muhammed (Rtd) said’ “Managing disaster is the coordination and integration of all activities necessary to build, sustain and improve the capacity to prepare for, protect against, respond to and recover from threatening or actual natural or human-induced disasters”.
According to him, it requires multi-jurisdictional, multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, and multi-resource initiative to come by.
The Head of NEMA Operations Office, Sokoto, Dr. Kofoworola Soleye, stressed the need for a strong and more effective partnership between federal, State, and Local Government, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as well as the private sectors to help discharge their respective roles and responsibilities towards achieving shared goals of disaster management.
Expressing why such meetings are crucial, the Director-General of NEMA emphasizes that the program is to come up with vital suggestions, workable policies, and strategies that will enhance mitigation, preparedness, and response to the menace of all kinds of disasters like pandemics, windstorm, flood, drought, desertification, fire outbreaks, which has threatened economic activities and security challenges as a result of armed banditry which has become a recurring decimal in some major parts of the county.