The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has said it saved not less than 1845 lives through 24 calls on its 112-emergency toll free number in the nation’s capital during the outgoing year.
The agency, however, said 19 people died during the incidents.
The Ag Director General of the agency, Mohammed Ibrahim Sabo, who announced this during an end-of-the-year briefing on the activities of the agency, gave a breakdown of the search and rescue activities in 2023 to include 1373 lives rescued from various flood disasters and four lives lost.
In the building collapse, he said 173 lives were saved and six lives lost.
Sabo said in major fire outbreaks; 247 lives were saved from five calls through the 112 toll-free number with two lives lost.
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The acting director said FEMA’s humanitarian activities impacted about 400 vulnerable residents of the FCT during the year.
He said, ‘’On the 4th of July 2023, torrential rainfall in Yangoji/Shafi community of Kwali Area Council displaced over 200 households and destroyed 25 farmlands.’’
He listed items distributed during the year to include 1000 yam seedlings, 2930 food items comprising rice, beans, maize, garri, guinea corn, groundnut oil, Maggi, and salt.
He said 544 non-food items comprising mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, stoves, buckets, cooking pots, 1140 grinding machines,1139 sewing machines and 1650 rice and maize seedlings were distributed.
The director said more collaborative efforts would be intensified in 2024 to ensure adequate enlightenment campaigns were carried out before, during and after the forthcoming rainy season.
