NEMA advises states to establish disaster management offices.

The Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mohammed Sani-Sidi, has called on State Governments to establish State Emergency Management Agencies to help manage disasters.

Sani-Sidi said the establishment of State Emergency Management Agencies would help states to respond to issues before the intervention of the mother agency.

According to him, one of the mandates of the agency, is to liaise with states on reduction of disasters in the country.

He noted that although some states had started responding to the call to establish State Emergency Management Agencies, there were still much to do in the area of equipping the states' offices.

On the issue of collaboration with similar agencies outside the shores of Nigeria, Sani-Sidi said the agency collaborated with other international agencies in providing relief materials when necessary.