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LASEMA partners Scout Council to sensitise younger generation on disaster risk reduction

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The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency(LASEMA) has partnered with the state chapter of the Scout Association of Nigeria in a bid to sensitize the younger generation to disaster risk reduction.

The Permanent Secretary, LASEMA, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, announced the collaboration on Saturday at the opening ceremony of the three-day camping organized by the Lagos State Scout Council.

Oke-Osanyintolu, who was represented at the event by the Director of Operations, Olatunde Akinsanya, said the synergy would be fruitful and become a landmark event in the history of both organisations.

He said: “This latest collaboration with the Lagos State Scout Council is a testimony to LASEMA’s fluidity, and the agency’s ability to expand or contract to suit existing situations, as the agency has once again succeeded in grooming new ‘foot soldiers’, by creating another ring of advocates ingrained with adequate safety precautions to inherit and sustain the high values of disaster risk reduction as they grow older, further enlightening their schoolmates, church members, siblings, individual communities and parents on the need to imbibe all qualities and knowledge necessary for disaster risk reduction.”

The camp, which started on Friday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29, was held at the LASEMA relief and settlement camp in the Igando area of the state with well over 500 scouts from across the state in attendance.

The Lagos State Scout Commissioner, Adebesin Oyeyemi, said the camp was last held in Lagos about 20 years ago.

He said: “This is the first time in several years that we are going to bring together 600 scouts across the state. The state scout council has been playing the leading role among others in the country because of the support we get from the state government. Our main goal this year is to be able to introduce the youths to the emergency control process in the state. You don’t underrate the children that you see as Boys Scouts. If they are well-informed, they will be able to impact the knowledge of others.”

Oke-Osanyintolu noted that the event signified the formal integration of LASEMA into the larger community of over 3,600 uniformed and non-invested scouts of the Lagos State Scout Council.

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