Borno NEMA Trains 300 Corps Members On Disaster Management

TO fully imbibe the culture of disaster risk reduction, prevention and mitigation in reducing the loss of lives and property in the North-East sub-region of the country, 300 corps members are being trained by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), regional coordinator of the agency, Alhaji Aliyu Bafale Sambo  has disclosed.

Sambo spoke yesterday at the training session of corps members at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

He said the training of corps members by the gency is to fully equip them with the use of risk reduction and mitigation mechanisms of saving people’s lives and property, adding that within the first quarter of this year, 45 lives were lost to fire outbreaks in the North-East.

He said NEMA has entered into collaboration with the National Youths Service Corps scheme to engage and train youths to take disaster risk reduction and mitigation to the grassroots, as a paradigm shift from reactive to proactive disaster management process.

The training, according to him, has commenced at NYSC orientation camp in Maiduguri, with 50 corps members, and they will be fully kitted and empowered with various emergency management information tools in the respective communities they are going to serve.

“During and after disaster, young men take part in rescuing others, save lives and provide first aid; concern themselves with hygienic standards and keep communal areas clean; collect food and distribute relief aid; provide care and other support for younger children, peers and adults; teach other children in formal and non-formal classes; learn about emergency issues and response and take on roles and responsibilities,” Sambo said.