The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has reiterated its committment to maintaining a five-minutes response time, in cases of emergencies in the FCT.
Dr Abbas Idriss, Director-General, FEMA, said this at the end of a road walk organised to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the agency, on Wednesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the road which which had the management and staff of the agency as participants, started from AYA round about to Army Resource Centre and ended at FEMA office.
Idriss, who was represented by Mr Mohammed Sabo, Director, Finance and Account, FEMA, said the walk was also create awareness on disaster prevention and mitigation in the FCT.
He added that it also created an opportunity for the staff of the agency to keep fit to enable them carry out their duties optimally.
“We have established a very good structure, as we have taken flooding emergency activities to various communities, build capacity, establish stakeholders and development partners for FEMA.
“So we are well grounded to be able to attend to emergency situation in the FCT.
“This exercise is a regular activity in FEMA, because our staff are always on the field and we want to ensure that they are physical fit to handle emergency situations in the FCT,” he said.
Also speaking, Mrs Florence Wenegieme, Director, Forecasting, Response and Mitigation, FEMA, said that all area councils had established their local emergency management committment, to complement the efforts of the agency.
She added that the agency which recorded zero-fatality during the 2022 flooding, had repositioned itself to record more success stories.
According to her, aggressive sensitisation, warning signs on flood prone areas, among other measures, were already in place to ensure no one losses his or her life to flooding.