The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called in the management of the Federal Secretariat in Minna to put in place an effective evacuation plan to safeguard the workers in the complex.
The NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Mr Ishaya Chonoko, made the remark during an emergency evacuation drill held at the Federal Secretariat Minna on Tuesday. He noted that the presence of effective evacuation plans in the secretariat would enhance the safety of workers.
He urged the management of Federal Secretariat Minna to ensure that it works out emergency evacuation plans with all the stakeholders in the complex, so that they could be part and parcel of the plans and their implementation.
He urged the management to remove the obstacles blocking? the emergency exits within the secretariat complex, noting that “all the four emergency exists had been blocked, thereby constituting serious obstacle and could lead to stampede during evacuation.”
Chonoko also advised the management of the secretariat to provide functional clinic and first aid boxes in strategic locations to assist in treating workers during an? emergency at the complex before taking them to health facilities for further treatment.
He decried the state of fire extinguishers at the complex, saying that most of them had expired and that most offices had no fire extinguishers to help in quenching fire in the event of an outbreak.