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Floods......again

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  1. iamsowise
    Commenter

    Flood, **** and Flood again..never ending problem and incompetent leadership

    Posted 8 months ago on 17 Sep 2011 11:09 #

  2. Rizwan Qaimkhani
    Member

    When contacted, former NDMA chairman Gen (retd) Nadeem Ahmed confirmed that an amount of Rs5 billion not used so far was lying with the government and because of bureaucratic hitches it was not being provided to the authority to expedite its operation in the affected areas.

    “I brought the issue to the knowledge of decision-makers but the funds were not released,” he said.
    (The chairman is not at fault, it is the politicians. Someone has an eye full on funds.)

    An official said the funds collected earlier had not been released because disaster management had become a provincial subject after the 18th Amendment.
    (The reason is valid as stated above)

    Meanwhile, the Speaker of the National Assembly has written a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani suggesting that the NDMA should be wrapped up because of what she called its ‘poor response’ to rescue and rehabilitation needs in Sindh.
    (So first they are not issuing the funds, second, they are maligning the agency by saying it is not effective. So after the dissolution of the agency, these corrupts will have their hands on the fund rightfully owed to effectees, very nice.)

    She said people in the affected areas were not blaming the NDMA but the political leaders for their plight.
    (Well guess what, you are responsible)

    NDMA spokesman Irshad Bhatti said the authority was not ready to cope with the disaster this year because the meteorological department had forecast 10 per cent less rains in Sindh. “And some of the districts hit by the floods were not
    mentioned in the forecast.”
    (Of course, the meteorological department is filled with cronies and crooks of PPP, what to expect. A monkey can do a better job.)

    Another NDMA official said that after last year’s floods some protection measures had been suggested, including raising the canal embankments at an estimated cost of Rs48 million but it had not been done and now the government had spent over Rs2 billion on rescue and relief work.
    (Talk of mismanagement and hiring cronies to do the crisis management job)

    Had the suggested measures been taken, the destruction caused by the current floods could have been minimised, he said.
    (Obviously but it requires sincerity on current government's part)
    http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/19/relief-for-rain-flood-affected-people-rs5bn-raised-last-year-still-lying-unused.html

    Posted 8 months ago on 19 Sep 2011 1:42 #

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