Expert Urges Government To Sensitise People On How To Prevent Disasters

Kolawole Amusat with Amb Romoke Ayinde

Disaster management expert, Kolawole Amusat Gbenla has advised the government to sensitise the general public on how to prepare, prevent and manage every weather to be able to put a stop to disasters.
Speaking on the family wellness programme on Able TV, 'Alaafia Loba' anchored by Ambassador Romoke Ayinde, Amusat said if the government have raise to their responsibility by enlighten the people on how to avoid unnecessary disasters like issue of fire outbreak during harmattan, flood during the raining season and other man made disasters, such will be frequent in our society.
"To stop the unnecessary incident of fire outbreak, floods and other man made disasters, the government must sensitise the people on the prevention of the disasters.
"Before the dry season, it is expected of various stakeholders which includes individual, organisation which is not state and state actors organisation to have gone out, gone round to educate and sensitise people on what to have done to prevent issues of fire outbreak. But on this part of the world, our level of preparedness is on the low ebb and Government is not helping matters because what would have been expected is that our Local Emergency Management Committee in our local government to have gone round market within the local government to educate them on what they should to curb fire disasters," Amusat said.
Speaking further, Amusat said the frequent fire outbreak in our markets are resulted from electrical powers which usually occur late in the night or early hours in the morning and if the markets people have been sensitise that they should always endevour to switch off their light, the fire disasters will be reduce.
"This sensitisation will not cost the local government people much money. They can appoint monitoring team that will ensure to check the market round after closing to ensure compliance and this will reduce the incident of frequent fire outbreak in the markets during the dry season," he added.