The National Emergency Management Agency and other environmental stakeholders in Niger State have advocated stiffer penalties for indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the state.
The stakeholders made the call in a communique issued on Wednesday in Minna at the end of a meeting on “2019 Flood Preparedness, Mitigation and Response”.
They said that stiff measures on refuse management were necessary to avert the danger associated with flood disaster in the state.
The stakeholders urged emergency management agencies to partner media organisations to ensure adequate publicity on the penalties for residents engaged in indiscriminate waste disposal, especially along water channels.
The communiqué called for advance early-warning system and pre-planning activities for successful mitigation and management of flood disaster in the state.
It suggested that traditional and modern means of information dissemination should be used as an early-warning mechanism in alerting residents during an emergency.
