The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has cautioned residents of Jabi District against indiscriminate waste disposal as this year’s rainy season approaches.

The director-general of FEMA, Abbas Idriss, made the call after an assessment of drainages in Jabi on Tuesday in Abuja.

Mr Idriss, who the agency’s Deputy Director, Monitoring and Special Duties, Abubakar Ododa, represented, appealed to residents not to block drains through indiscriminate disposal of solid wastes.

He noted that drainages in the area visited were poorly managed as most of the water passages were blocked by solid waste, making the environment prone to flooding.

Mr Idriss frowned at the situation where wastes removed from drainages are kept beside the drains and eventually end up in the gutters when wind or rain comes.

He appealed to the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) to immediately take action to clear the drains.

The DG also appealed to residents to maintain the sanity of the environment to avert a possible outbreak of diseases and flooding in the coming season.

He, however, applauded the siting of a well-organised dump site close to Jabi park where refuse is neatly burnt. 

(NAN)