The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed its personnel on 24-hour patrol in major roads within South East to enable it to attend to emergencies.
Mr Brandon Walson, the South East Zonal Co-ordinator of NEMA, said this while inaugurating the agency’s ‘‘2017 Operation Eagle-Eye’’ in Enugu on Saturday.
Walson said that the agency would deploy four teams with four rescue vehicles on critical road corridors in the zone.
The vehicles to be deployed would include two ambulances, an emergency response Hilux and a Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) vehicle.
The roads two be patrolled, according to Walson, are the Enugu-Onitsha road, Enugu-Port Harcourt road, Enugu-Abakaliki road, and Enugu-Nsukka-Obollo Afor road.
‘‘We are working closely with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in this operation,” he said.
“Operation Eagle-Eye is meant and designed to assist the FRSC.
‘‘Through the operation, we share and collate data about movement and development on the roads together with FRSC personnel.”
Speaking on disaster management and preparedness, Walson said:
‘‘We educate members of the public as well as share with them our information leaflets on disaster reduction and how best to be pro-active to reduce losses during disasters.”
The patrols would last a during of 12 days from December 23 to January 4, 2018.
Earlier, Mr Edward Zamber, the FRSC Sector Commander in Enugu State, had lauded the NEMA and FRSC officials for the sustained co-operation and synergy between the two agencies over the years.
Zamber said that the close collaboration between the agencies would ensure that roads in the zone are more secure.
(Source: NAN)