EVERY HISBAH OFFICER IS A PEACE AND SECURITY AMBASSADOR IN HIS COMMUNITY.(PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Press Release: Every Hisbah Officer Is a Peace and Security Ambassador in His Community. Kano State Governor Alh.Abba Kabir Yusuf has reaffirmed the determination of his administration to ensure security and peace  for the protection of lives and property across the state. The Governor, represented by the Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani Sani Auwal, made the commitment during a stakeholders meeting on the contribution of shari'a sector institutions toward promoting peace and security in Kano State. The meeting was organized by the Kano State Hisbah Board and held at the Coronation hall Government House, Kano. He emphasized that security is a collective responsibility and urged the Hisbah Board to focus more on providing intelligence reports to conventional security agencies, rather than limiting efforts to moral enforcement alone. The Governor also called on the Zakkat and Endowment Commission to develop a structured system for collecting zakkat from w...

NEMA SENSITIZE STAKEHOLDERS ON FLOOD MANAGEMENT. (PHOTO).


NEMA Sensitize Stakeholders On Flood Management

The North East zonal office of the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA has organised a one-day sensitisation programme on flood management. 

Zonal Coordinator Sirajo Garba said the programme was organised to strengthen synergy between the Agency and other stakeholders towards mitigating the effect of flood in Borno state and the entire region. 

He explained that the Zonal office had carried out vulnerability test of flood prone areas across the state and had been sensitising people living on water ways and river banks to relocate to safer locations. 

Alhaji Sirajo however expressed concern that some communities in parts of the metropolis have converted drainage networks constructed by the state government into waste disposal point, noting that its one of the contributing factors of flooding. 

He commended the state government for embarking on desilting of drainage networks across the state and called on the public to imbibe the culture of environmental hygiene. 

"NEMA North East zonal office has been proactive and that is why it convened this stakeholders meeting to discuss how work together as a team irrespective of Agency or Organisation to avert devastating effect of flood in the state" Sirajo said.

Humanitarian Affairs Officer United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Activities Ballama Mustapha said the United Nations in collaboration with National Emergency Management Agency recently organised training for officials of NEMA and State Emergency Management Agencies of the thirty six states on flood disaster management and conducting needs assessment. 

He explained that at the end of the training, participants resolved to adopt a uniform template of data collection known as Global Rapid Post-disaster Damage Estimation Approach GRADE.

Representative of Borno State Emergency Management Agency SEMA Ali Mbusube described the programme as timely and will strengthen collaborative effort to mitigate flood.

The meeting was attended security agencies, Nigeria Red Cross, Federal and State Fire Service, United Nation Agency, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons and other government agencies. 



 

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