The Federal Government on Monday gave
additional relief items to Internally Displaced Persons
(IDP) in Chibok, Borno, to further cushion the hardship in the area.
Alhaji Muhammed Kanar, the North-East Zonal Coordinator
of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said in Yola, Adamawa, that
the items were given in compliance to the directive from the presidency.
He said the agency was currently taking care of registered
10,376 IDPs in Chibok and its environs.
He also said experts from the Safe School Initiative (SSI)
also accompanied NEMA team to conduct a needs assessment on schools destroyed
by the Boko Haram insurgents in the area.
The coordinator assured that the agency would provide
boreholes to ease the perennial shortage of drinking water in the
affected communities.
“President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the
agency to supply additional intervention items to Chibok community.
“Items supplied include 1,200 bags of 10 kgs rice, 1,000
blankets, 500 mosquito nets and 500 mats, cooking oils and 500 bags of maize.
Receiving the items on behalf of the community, the District
Head of Chibok,Modu Zanna, who was represented by Alhaji Lawan
Yerima-Amdan, thanked the presidency for the gesture.
He, however, appealed to the government to expedite action
on the release of their abducted girls.
“We thank President Goodluck Jonathan for
identifying with us; we hope that he will intervene on the issue of our
girls,” Zanna said.
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