Succor has come to 30,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Taraba state, Northeast Nigeria as National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials to them.
The items include Rice (12.5kg), beans (25kg), vegetable oil, beverages, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets among many others.
Flagging off the exercise in Jalingo the state capital, AVM Muhammad Muhammad (Retd), Director General of the agency said the items is for beneficiaries in the 16 local government areas in the state.
According to a statement by Hafeez Bello Information Officer NEMA, Yola Operations Office, the Director-General was represented by Mr. Maidalla Iliya, NEMA Head of Operations, Adamawa/Taraba Operations Office.
“The items consisted of food and non-food materials, the relief materials were further harmonized into 5,000 households”.
“Beneficiaries should not feel that they were compensated by the government, but those items were provided just to relieve them and sustain them for a moment,” the statement added.
Muhammad explained that the gesture was in line with the agenda of Hajiya Sa’adiya Farouk, the Minister of Humanitarian, Disaster Management and Social Development on bringing succor to the internally displaced persons in the state. Earlier, Taraba State Commissioner for Special Duties and Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Taninga Dinga commended the Federal government for the assistance. Represented by Mr. Samson Tijos, Secretary in the Ministry, Binga expressed satisfaction with the quality and quantity of the materials provided by NEMA.
He also thanked the federal government for considering the request made by the state Governor, Darius Ishaku concerning the plight of the IDPs in the state.
In his address, the Chairman, Jalingo Local Government Council, Abdulnaseer Boboji thanked Governor Darius Ishaku for taking up the complaint of victims of communal crisis to the federal government, as well as the federal government for granting the succour to the IDPs.
