Director General, CRSEMA, Mr Antigha Gill.
By Anietie Akpan
The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (CRSEMA) and it’s Stakeholders, have attributed the property worth millions of naira lost to recent fire incident at Goldie Street in Calabar to the attack on firefighters.
Accordingly, CRSEMA and its Stakeholders, vehemently condemned the attack describing such act as unwholesome attitude of some misguided residents of Goldie Street in Calabar South Local Government Area who for no reason obstructed a fire disaster rescue operation along the street by peltering dangerous objects on a firefighting truck deployed to address the situation causing substantial damage to the truck and injuring some of the rescue team.
The condemnation which was part of the resolutions taken at the recent CRSEMA and Stakeholders meeting held at the State Planning Commission hall in Calabar saying, the action of the misguided residents was not only embarrassing but unwholesome, uncultured, unpatriotic and absolutely alien to the highly responsible people of the state.
The document which was signed by the Director General, CRSEMA, Mr Antigha Gill, noted that, “due to the obstruction preventing the fire fighters to gain access to the incident scene, property worth millions of Naira were destroyed displacing scores of occupants”.
Also contained in the resolution was a strong advice to relevant security operatives to “investigate the incident and bring the culprits to book to serve as deterrent to others”.
CRSEMA and the Stakeholders resolved to maintain dexterity, zeal and commitment towards the service delivery of it’s statutory mandates and called on the public for support.
Consequently, the general public was also advised to “avoid resolving to self help before making emergency calls as such could cause unnecessary delays for seamless interventions”.
Taking cognisance of the emergency status of the Agency, the public were advised not to hinder the access of any disaster operation but to give a free pass for it’s machinery and rescue teams at every emergency situation.
Accordingly, emergency numbers: NCC. 112, Police Control Room 07067977330, 07053355415, Federal Fire Service 07063083865 and State Fire Service 08064028394, were provided by CRSEMA for members of the public for calls and intervention.
