Governor Lawal Pledges Team Work With Emergency Management Agency

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has declared his administration’s readiness to spouse with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for effectual catastrophe management.

The politician stated this astatine the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and the motorboat of the related strategy yesterday astatine the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Conference Centre successful Abuja.

A connection issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed that Vice President Kashim Shettima, led the authoritative motorboat of NEMA’s strategical program (2025 – 2029), the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy (2025 – 2030), and the Action Plan (2025 – 2028).

The connection added that the lawsuit with the taxable ‘Fund Resilience, Not Disaster’ attracted stakeholders from crossed Nigeria.

In his goodwill message, Governor Lawal praised NEMA for organising a timely dialog and for its dedication to enhancing Nigeria’s catastrophe hazard absorption framework.

He said, “Disasters hap successful a vicious rhythm wherever 1 catastrophe fuels another. Our acquisition underscores that nary hazard is genuinely isolated; it is interconnected, and managing it requires a strategical approach.

“Therefore, I commend you connected the ceremonial motorboat of your five-year strategical plan, tagged: ‘The National Disaster Risk Strategy 2025 to 2030’.

“As we motorboat the strategical program and deliberate connected backing models, I impulse each stakeholders to deepen collaboration and guarantee that nary stakeholder is near down successful our corporate effort to physique a safer, much resilient Nigeria.

“The taxable of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, ‘Fund Resilience, Not Disasters,’ indispensable beryllium transformed into factual plans during this roundtable.

“To guarantee sustainability, it is important to physique resilience successful funding, arsenic catastrophe absorption is simply a dynamic and evolving process. Funding mechanisms should beryllium dynamic, flexible, and readily available,” helium said.

Governor Lawal added that Zamfara faces galore disasters and emergencies, some earthy and man-made, specified arsenic insecurity, fires, displacement, mining shaft collapses, floods, and different adverse effects of clime change, among others.

“Through it all, we tin ever number connected NEMA to beryllium determination arsenic portion of the management, recovery, reconstruction, and mitigation efforts. Therefore, I convey you connected behalf of the authorities and radical of Zamfara State for your efforts and interventions and for ever being determination successful our times of need,” helium said.