The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said a total of 12 persons lost their lives while it rescued a total of 1,793 persons from various disasters, including floods, fire incidences and building collapses in 2023.
The emergency agency said they reviewed 24 calls on its emergency toll-free number, 112 to achieve this feat.
It said it also saved about N90m worth of properties and provided humanitarian aid that impacted 400 households in the FCT through the year 2023.
Acting Director General of FEMA, Ibrahim Sabo, gave the figures during an end-of-year media parley, in Abuja on Wednesday.
In breaking down the numbers Sabo said 1,373 were rescued from various flood disasters, 173 lives saved from five building collapse distress calls, and 247 lives saved from major fire outbreaks, from five calls through the 112-toll free number.
On the 12 lives lost, he gave the breakdown as four from flood disasters, six from building collapse, and two to fire outbreaks.
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“As of October, we were able to save N90m worth of properties across all types of disasters within the FCT,” he added.
The Acting DG also disclosed that the Agency in August, together with the National Economic Livelihood Emergency Intervention, the National Emergency Management Agency, and the Agricultural and Rural Development Secretariat, distributed food and non-food items across the 6 area councils of the FCT to 8,403 beneficiaries in an exercise that lasted three weeks.
“The total number of items distributed were as follows; 1,000 yam seedlings, 2,930 food items comprising rice, beans, maize, garri, guinea corn, ground nut oil, Maggi, salt etc; 544 non-food items comprising mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, stoves, buckets, cooking pots; 1,140 grinding machines; 1,139 sewing machines; 1,650 rice and maize seedlings, ” he said.
Sabo identified the major disasters as flood, fire incidents, and building collapses recorded from 24 calls through FEMA’s emergency toll-free number- 112.
