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CLO Worried Over State Of Rivers Fire Service, Calls For Improved Funding

The Civil Liberty Organization in Rivers State has expressed deep worries over the state of the Rivers State Fire Service and tasked the state Chief Executive, governor Nyesom Ezenwo  Wilke on the need for an improved funding to ensure effective fire fighting in the state.

Speaking on the present condition of state fire service, Enefa Geogewill. a member of the Civil Liberty Organization ,CLO stated this in Port Harcourt while remarking that the state fire service have experienced and competent men who can handle fire disaster efficiently but lacked adequate resources too do so.

He noted that inadequate funding had crippled the organization and when large fire incidents break they lac the capacity too respond too such emergencies.

George Enefa drew the attention of the Rivers State to the plight of the state fire service, even as he noted that given the enabling environment, the fire fighters with their experience in the job were capable of fighting large fire outbreak. 

The CLO member noted that the state governor should cater for the need of the fire department for the benefit of all living and doing business in the state. He observed that governor Wike should imbibe the maxim that charity begins at home just as he was given to donating millions of naira to other state who were confronted with one disaster or the other, fighting the recent donation made by the governor to Sokoto state in the wake of market fire that wreaked havoc on peoples businesses.

In his word, George Enefa said that the governor  is known to donate Mooney to other states and should do same at home.

It will be recalled that in recent times, there had been reported cases of market fires in the with affected trader lamenting that their loses could have been minimized with the prompt intervention of the state fire service. In some of the incidents,  it was either a cade of late arrival at the scene of fire of lack of adequate fire fighting equipment of the part of the state fire service, leading to public outcry.

 

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