State, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has
adopted monitoring and surveillance of domestic, industrial and public
facilities into its main activity of disaster management.
Speaking with newsmen on the activities of the Surveillance and
Monitoring Unit of the Agency, LASEMA General Manager, Mr. Michael
Akindele, explained that the shift from search and rescue to disaster
risk reduction, through emergency prevention, mitigation, early
warning and advocacy are new strategies in disaster management.
He explained that the new approach is a practical one to reducing
emergencies/disasters thereby reducing the huge expenses borne by the
State Government on relief assistance to victims of disasters.
Akindele stated that the Agency is taking proactive steps to carry out
immediate monitoring/inspection of reported distressed and thereafter
work in partnership with other government Agencies to prevent
disastersfrom occurring.
The LASEMA boss thanked the pubic for their support through prompt
calls on danger signs, noting that the public play pivotal role in
disaster mitigation/prevention and consequently reducing hazards,
risks and vulnerabilities by ensuring that distress calls on emerging
hazards and risks are relayed to the Agency.
According to him, the Agency has continued to receive relevant
information through the toll free line 767/112, such as dilapidated
and structurally defective buildings, schools, among others that could
degenerate into future disasters.
Akindele called for continued cooperation with LASEMA, stating that
the present administration would not sit back and watch activities of
some individuals or organization degenerate into huge material loss
and avoidable fatalities when emergency/disaster occurs.
The LASEMA boss also stated that aside from surveillance activities,
the Agency has also embarkson advocacy, sensitization and town hall
meetings in various communities in order to bringto the barest minimum
occurrences of emergencies/disasters in the State.
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