The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency, FCT-FEMA, said that in 2023, it rescued 1,793 persons and saved almost N90 million in property from different calamities.
FEMA’s acting Director-General, Ibrahim Sabo, made the announcement during the agency’s end-of-year media interaction session in Abuja on Wednesday.
Sabo defined the biggest catastrophes as floods, fire events, and building collapses based on 24 calls to FEMA’s emergency toll-free line, 112, over the previous year.
He did, however, say that tragedies claimed the lives of 12 people: four from floods, six from building collapses, and two from fires.
Sabo stated that 1,373 of the 1,793 lives saved were rescued from different water catastrophes, 173 from five building collapses, and 247 from fire breakouts.
According to him:
“Also, as of October, we were able to save N90 million worth of properties across all types of disasters within the FCT.
“We equally provided humanitarian aid that impacted 400 households in the FCT within the year under review.”
cc: Daily Post Ng
