Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the attitude of the Federal Government to the Lagos surge which claimed no fewer than 16 lives.
The party on Wednesday believed “in other civilised climes, which put a huge premium on the lives of its citizens, this will be regarded as a major calamity compelling the presence of the President”.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN regretted that more than 10 days after the surge, neither the President nor any representative of the FG had visited the scene or condole with the families of the victims.
The party said, “Contrary to the uninformed comments by some people seeking to score cheap political points, climate change is a global phenomenon but it is quite unfortunate that despite the huge sums the country has expended on attending international conferences on the impact of climate change, the Federal Government is yet to come up with concrete adaptation and mitigation measures to tackle its impact which has now started manifesting in several parts of Nigeria.”
The party calls on the FG to show more concern for the plight of its citizens by “coming up with mitigation measures to avert further natural disaster as a result of climate change and respond more robustly and timely to such natural disasters whenever and wherever they may occur in Nigeria.”
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