Damaged houses are seen at the Ahr river in Insul, western Germany, Thursday, July 15, 2021. Due to heavy rain falls the Ahr river dramatically went over the banks the evening before. People have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some buildings to collapse. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has revealed that the 2022 floods affected 16,000 families while 6,000 farmers lost various seedlings and farm produce in Lagos State.
This is contained in a statement by the Lagos Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, on Friday in Lagos.
The statement was issued against the backdrop of the NEMA/World Bank initiative on boosting resilience and lessons learned from the 2022 flood disaster.
Farinloye quoted the Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, as saying that different sectors of the economy were affected by floods in Lagos State in 2022.
Ahmed also stressed the need to reappraise all efforts carried out on every incident that occurred, identify and bridge the gaps for effective and efficient response.
He said due to the events of 2022, the agency directed the Lagos Territorial Office and other NEMA field offices to ensure that losses were mitigated and the resilience of Nigerians strengthened in the 2023 rainy season.
