United Nations To Assist Kogi, Others On Disaster Management

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The United Nation Under-secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Relief Emergency Coordinator; Baroness Amos has pledged that the United Nation is willing to give technical expertise to Federal and State governments in Nigeria. Baroness Amos who disclosed this while speaking in lokoja, also stated that she and her team were in the country following the devastating flood that ravaged some states of the federation and to see how to partner with the affected states in area of disaster management. Before heading to the government house for discussion with traditional rulers, journalists in the state, representatives of some of the affected local government area and their chairmen, Baroness Amos and her team went to the greater water works that was submerged during the flooding. In his opening speech the Deputy Governor of Kogi State who stood in for Governor Idris Wada disclosed that several intervention measures has been made to partly mitigate the effect of last year's flood on the lives of the people and in the rebuilding of infrastructures, he however appealed for support from the United Nation as the flood overwhelmed the state. The leader of the team Baroness Amos explained that the team which is expected to visit states that were devastated by the flood namely Kogi, Delta, Bayelsa and Anambra States so as to assess the regions and see how best the U.N. can assist these states to prevent future occurrence.

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