The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that Nigeria should not wait until natural disasters occur before action is taken.

He said the Senate would invite the National Emergency Management Agency and other relevant bodies to brief it on the warning of tremor in some parts of the country.

Speaking during an interactive session with journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Sunday, Saraki noted that it was better to prevent disasters than to allow them to occur and the nation would be counting losses.

He added that the Senate was prepared to ensure that appropriate proactive measures were taken to forestall the occurrence of disasters in any part of the country and to put in place disaster management mechanisms to address those that could not be prevented.

Saraki said, “When the Senate resumes, we need to have a lot of briefings in the area of the warning on tremor and other disasters like earthquakes to find out what is the level of the threat and also NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency) should also let us know their preparations.”

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