The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency, has disclosed that it rescued 1,793 people and saved about N90 million worth of properties from various disasters in 2023.
This was made known by the acting Director-General of FEMA, Ibrahim Sabo, during the agency’s end-of-year media interactive session in Abuja on Wednesday.
Sabo cited the major disasters to include floods, fire incidents, and building collapses recorded from 24 calls through FEMA’s emergency toll-free number, 112.
He then noted that 12 lives were lost to disasters, four from floods, six from building collapses, and two from fire outbreaks.
He explained further that out of the 1,793 lives saved,1,373 were rescued from various flood disasters, 173 from five building collapses, and 247 from fire outbreaks.
“Also, as of October, we were able to save N90 million worth of properties across all types of disasters within the FCT.
“We equally provided humanitarian aid that impacted 400 households in the FCT within the year under review,” he said.
The FEMA boss stated further that the agency, in collaboration with its partners, has distributed food and non-food items to 8,403 beneficiaries across the six area councils of the FCT.
He identified the partners to include the National Economic Livelihood Emergency Intervention, National Emergency Management Agency, and Agricultural and Rural Development Secretariat, FCT Administration.
Sabo equally said that some of the food items included rice, beans, maize, cassava flakes (garri), guinea corn, groundnut oil, and seasoning, as well as yam and maize seedlings.
The non-food items, he listed to include mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, stoves, buckets, cooking pots, grinding and sewing machines.
