By 
Kenny EMMAN
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 2022 flood disaster will be worse than that of 2012 in Nigeria.
The Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, made the prediction at a strategic workshop with stakeholders on disaster risk reduction and management held in Abuja.
According to Ahmed, more than 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022, adding that over 50 flood disaster alerts were received by the agency on a daily basis, with more 100 communities affected.
According to him, the numbers have been increasing by the day.
In 2012, NEMA reported that at least 363 people were killed and over 2.1 million people were displaced by floods.
The NEMA boss blamed state government for not heeding to the warnings, which he said makes disaster reduction and management very difficult.
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