A Bill for an Act to Amend the National Emergency Management Agency (Establishment, etc.) Act 1999 to Create A Department of National Flood Mitigation and Insurance Program in the National Emergency Management Agency and for Related Matters, 2023
National Assembly (2023)
Working Paper
This Bill seeks to amend the National Emergency Management Agency (Establishment, Etc.) Act to make the Agency more efficient during cases of flood as the Agency will have a pool of resources to draw from. It will also halt the huge and mostly uncoordinated extra budgetary amounts doled out to supposed victims without any certainty that such monies will go to the right victims and shared on the basis of verifiable loses. It will also create conditions that mitigate the effects of flooding by ensuring that property owners are required to comply with building ordinances for flood hazard areas as well to offer a financial protection against flood loses.