Each Received N100,000 From ADF
The second batch of Nigerian evacuees numbering 130 were airlifted from the Port Sudan border by Tarmac Airline and arrived in the country from Sudan.
Recall that on Wednesday the first batch of 376 evacuees had arrived in Abuja onboard Air Force and Air Peace planes.
Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Humanitarians Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development who received them at the General Aviation Terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, said out of the 130 evacuees, 128 are females and children and two men.
“We are going to continue to prioritize the return of women until every one of them is out there. All the people that arrived came from one port that is the port Sudan in the Republic of Sudan. It is unique because the bulk of our people after facing the initial difficulties on the border of Egypt, we move them to the port of Sudan,” he said.
Shedding more light on the evacuation, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mustapha Habib, said the exercise is ongoing as about 800 persons are heading out from the Egypt border to Aswan where they would airlift.
“We have Max air in the capacity of 560 passengers. Azman has a capacity of 400 passengers, and we have already activated Air Peace. We are waiting for the feedback”, he said.
On her part, the Director of Migration, from the Federal Commissioner of National Commission for Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Persons, Mrs. Cathrine Udida said the commission would ensure the evacuees find placements in schools.
“We have a team of psychosocial support, most of them are already traumatized, as you can see. And so going forward, we’ll be able to make sure we provide psychosocial support to all of the students that have come back and then follow up several weeks after to ensure that they have properly settled in and able to live a normal life after the trauma” she said.
Meanwhile, The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has commenced the disbursement of N100,000 and Dignity Packs to each of the Nigerian returnees from Sudan.
Each of the evacuees, irrespective of the number, received N100,000 and Dignity Packs from the Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) upon arrival at the airport in Abuja.
A representative of the foundation, Maryam Buhari-Shehu, said the Board of Trustees of the Foundation has resolved to be involved fully in the evacuation and resettling of thousands of Nigerians that were stranded in Sudan.
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