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Posted By Admin On June 7th, 2025

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has said that his administration is doing everything to ensure that the impact of flood disaster is mitigated in the State.

Otti, who spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, in Umuahia, said that the building of roads, construction of drainages, opening up of blocked gutters, and erosion control are some of the measures being deployed to prevent flood disasters in Abia.

The Governor, represented at the meeting by the Commissioner for Environment, Philemon Ogbonna, said that dissemination of early warning messages to the people was very important in mitigating the devastating impacts of flood incidents in the State.

He charged the participants to cascade the information and knowledge gathered to the citizens down to community levels, saying the meeting was apt following the flood disaster predictions by relevant Federal government agencies.

He further said that the meeting would help in building citizens’ resilience in the event of any flood disaster.

In his speech, the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Zubaida Umar who was represented by a Director in the agency, Mr Walter Brandon, said that NEMA has developed disaster mitigation strategies, including capacity building of local emergency responders and rainwater harvesters.

In his welcome address, the Executive Secretary of State Emergency Management Agency, Sunny Jackson said the meeting would prepare actions to reduce the impacts of upcoming flood disaster as predicted.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/07/abia-preparing-against-flood-disaster-otti/