Cross River Landslide Beyond State Response – Hon Bassey

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Disaster Management, Hon. Joseph Bassey, has appealed to the federal government and international organisations to intevene in the devastating landslides in Cross River State.
The lawmaker said the scale of the crisis was beyond the state government’s capacity.
Bassey, who spoke yesterday in Calabar on the recent incidents that claimed lives and destroyed property, said Cross River had been identified early as one of Nigeria’s most flood and rainfall-prone states.
He said his committee had formally notified the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), which deployed officials to the state last week for simulation, risk assessment a...