The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, has stepped up plans to prevent recurrence of flooding in the nation.
The agency is engaging stakeholders on specific environmental issues to stop the yearly tide of flooding in Nigeria.
Speaking at the NESREA 14th National Stakeholders Forum in Abuja, with the theme; “Flood disaster in Nigeria, an imperative for environmental governance”,
the Director General of the agency, Aliyu Jauro, said the agency carried out environmental awareness activities specifically on flood control all over the country through town hall meetings, road shows, visitations to markets, schools and worship centres.
The Director General, while lamenting that over time the issue of flooding has plagued Nigeria as a nation, said almost all the sectors of Nigeria had been affected.
He however assured stakeholders that the agency was well positioned, having been armed with its amended establishment Act to operationalize the gazzetted National Environmental Regulations, some of which would help control flooding in Nigeria.
He said that was why the agency was partnering stakeholders to implement some of the regulations to minimize the devastating effect of flooding.
Some of the regulations, he said included the National Environmental watershed, mountainous hilly and catchment areas regulations 2009.
Also speaking, the Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, said the report of flood disaster in Nigeria this year alone corroborated with the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) assertion.
She however lamented that the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria was hampered by flooding which impacted negatively on “no hunger, zero hunger, good health and well being.”
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