Mr Mustapha Maihaja, its Director-General, told Newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja that it was important to bring key stakeholders in disaster management together to chart the way forward toward handling the predictions.“Preparations and planning are key to any successful activity or project. Knowing our role in disaster management, we started our planning since October through November, last year.“So, we have come out with a work plan that guides us on a step-by-step approach to possibilities.“And with the seasonal rainfall prediction released, we will now engage all stakeholders for technical meetings.“The report will be analysed vis a vis the possibilities as far as disaster management is concerned and at the end, we will come out with a disaster management implications and socioeconomic consequences should the flood occur,” he said.The director-general added that the organisation would be airing sensitisation campaigns through radio jingles and television programmes.He added that the organisation had also perfected plans on sensitising flood-prone communities through video clips.“We intend to bring a new approach to sensitising people as we have made plans to go directly to these flood-prone communities with video clips to show them the dangers of staying in these areas in case flood occurs.“That will prepare them so that when there is need for evacuation, they will listen to us,” he said.
The Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council, Kogi State, Faruk Adejoh-Audu says he cannot congratulate Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello because Kogi State was turned into a war field during the Saturday election.Adejoh-Audu said the election was marred by violence, claiming that nine PDP members were killed during the election.He also explained how the PDP women leader of Ochadamu Ward in Ofu Local Government Area, Salome Abuh, was burnt to death in her home by political thugs.“I will have congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello but unfortunately, I cannot because he won no election. What he won was a war waged by him and the Nigerian Police, so I cannot congratulate him.“His claim that there were just pockets of violence is incorrect. There is hardly any ward in Kogi State except a few that did not experience violence.“Violence is not necessarily when people die, but in this case, people died. At least nine people died, all of them were PDP members. The 10th pe...
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