The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), this weekend, held a meeting with the Borno state government to work out modalities towards improving the lives of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the state.
Director of Search and Rescue in the agency, Air Commodore Charles Otegbabe, while briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting in Maiduguri, said both NEMA and Borno state government have agreed to jointly run the IDPs camps in order to improve on the lives of those living in camps within the state.
“What we’ve agreed essentially is more like sharing responsibilities on how to continue to maintain the camps in a very hygienic manner. We’ve also agreed that NEMA would do as much as possible to provide items like rice, maize and other hard foodstuff; while things they can easily source here would be provided by the state government,” Otegbabe said.
He said both NEMA and SEMA have agreed to work towards better services in IDPs camps till the next two months when they hope conditions in the affected communities should have improved, and the displaced persons be encouraged to go back, adding that if after the two months, the IDPs are still in camps, both agencies would work out further arrangements.
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