FG designs national risk financing framework for disaster prevention – Shettima

Vice-President Kashim Shettima says President Bola Tinubu’s medication is processing a National Disaster Risk Financing Framework to warrant timely backing for prevention and preparedness.

Shettima said this astatine the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) themed ‘Fund Resilience, Not Disasters’, organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), held connected Monday successful Abuja.

He besides said that the medication was deepening partnerships with improvement partners, the backstage sector, and probe institutions to thrust innovation and resilience gathering astatine each levels.

” If we neglect to put successful resilience, we volition proceed to walk our scarce resources cleaning up aft crises alternatively of gathering lasting prosperity.

“President Bola  Tinubu emphasises this request to dainty resilience arsenic a nationalist policy.

” We are integrating catastrophe hazard simplification into each sector—from agriculture and infrastructure to acquisition and health.

“This is arsenic we are expanding aboriginal informing systems to guarantee that communities person timely alerts earlier floods, droughts, oregon illness outbreaks occur.

” We are strengthening authorities and section exigency absorption agencies done training, technology, and coordination support, ” the vice-president said.

Shettima, however, said that committedness unsocial was not enough, adding, ” We indispensable lucifer our words with enactment and our policies with funding.

“To money resilience is to put successful drainage systems, not alleviation camps; to physique stronger schools and hospitals, not impermanent shelters.

“Asi, to enactment farmers with climate-smart tools, not conscionable nutrient assistance aft floods; and to bid and equip our archetypal responders earlier the sirens commencement to wail.

“This is the displacement we indispensable make—from reacting to crises to anticipating and preventing them.”

He stated that resilience cannot beryllium guaranteed by authorities alone, saying, “It is built by each of us.

“It is reflected successful however we program our cities, successful however businesses support their workers, and successful however communities stock accusation and look retired for 1 another.

“This is wherefore our backstage assemblage indispensable spot itself arsenic a spouse successful prevention, embedding hazard simplification into firm readying and concern decisions.”

Shettima said that academia and probe institutions besides carnivore the work of helping the authorities make the data, innovation, and applicable probe needed to hole for a safer future.

“We number connected them to signifier the cognition that guides our decisions. And we expect our civilian nine to clasp america accountable, to rise awareness, and to mobilise citizens astir the shared work of preparedness.

“But nary of these efforts volition output results unless we empower and enactment our communities to instrumentality ownership of their safety.

“They are the instauration of immoderate strategy we follow and the heartbeat of our nationalist resilience.

“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the decades of disasters our federation and the satellite person endured indispensable animate america to determination from sympathy aft disasters to strategy earlier they happen.

“We indispensable regenerate absorption with readiness and fearfulness with foresight,” the vice-president said.

He commended NEMA, partners, and each who proceed to play their relation successful keeping Nigerians harmless and successful gathering a federation that is ready—not conscionable for contiguous but for tomorrow.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Mr Yusuf Sununu, highlighted the value of catastrophe hazard absorption successful Nigeria.

He emphasised the request for a broad and holistic attack to code the challenges posed by disasters.

According to him, Nigeria has suffered importantly from disasters, including flooding, drought, landslides, insurgency, and banditry, which person analyzable humanitarian and poorness simplification efforts.

He stressed the request for a broad and holistic attack to catastrophe hazard management, involving each stakeholders.

Sununu besides called for empowering section communities to hole for and respond to disasters.

“A federation that cannot absor...