The House of Representatives has expressed concern toward reviewing laws and policies in order to address environmental disasters that poses serious threat to Nigerians.
The Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Julius Pondi stated this at the inaugural sitting of the panel in Abuja.
Pondi noted that flood, pollution, erosion, deforestation, and all kinds of disaster are on the increase which as calls for urgent steps to be taken to forestall further degradation.
The Chairman stated that, countries all over the world are making frantic efforts to salvage and remedy what is left in their environment and Nigeria is not left out.
He stressed that the country needs immediate, transformational changes in every sector to ensure this change.
Pondi said, “Our environment has been subjected to very unkind conditions and our constituents and constituencies are suffering the consequences.”
“On our part as a Committee, we shall be looking into laws that need to be amended and policies that have outstayed their relevance and see how we can bring about positive changes and solutions to the challenges staring at us.
He added that, what we are going through is not peculiar to us but a global problem which requires all hands to be on.
