The Director-General of FEMA, Idriss Abbas, made the call in a statement on Sunday.
He said most of the deaths recorded in the past from flood in the FCT were as a result of non-compliance to instructions and early warnings.
“And I kept warning them to go back, three of them went back but only this man insisted on crossing, unfortunately the water overpowered him and washed him away,” he said. He said NIHSA’s most recent predictions warned of torrential rainfall and flooding from August, adding that FEMA had carried out aggressive sensitisation to educate residents on ways to prevent the impending flood.
“We also embarked on community to community flood sensitisation campaigns in the FCT and mounted billboards at all the flood prone points warning off and cautioning residents from these danger areas.”
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