President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to all well meaning Nigerians to always heed to flood early warning instructions by relevant government agencies in the nation.
The President made this plea in a statement on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu.
“It is of great importance that our people listen and immediately comply with early-warning alerts and forecast by government agencies in order to save lives and property from wanton destruction.
The President was quoted by saying in the statement that “As the saying goes, ‘a stitch in time saves nine”.
The president stressed the need to comply with instructions intended to avert the negative consequences of such natural disaster in the country, without further hesitation.
President Buhari was reacting to an updated brief by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on the magnitude of the havoc wreaked by flash foods, rainstorm, windstorm and fire incidents in the country.
The president sympathised with the families of the victims who lost their lives, as well as those whose property perished in the incidents.
In order to ameliorate the negative effects of these natural and in some cases, avoidable disasters, the President directed NEMA to immediately provide relief assistance to the affected persons and communities in all the geo-political zones of the country.
