Worried by the rising number of fatalities and human disappearances, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has moved to rally partners toward providing a coordinated and compassionate response plan to halt the trend.
Speaking at the launch of a National Mass Fatality Response Plan in Abuja, the Director General of the agency, Zubaida Umar, revealed that the rise in numbers of fatalities and disappearances in Nigeria is due to floods, explosions, building collapses, epidemics and other tragic emergencies, saying that the absence of an efficient coordinated and compassionate response plan has necessitated the launch of the fatalities plan, and is also the reason NEMA is taking the lead in tackling the challenge head on.
