The Federal Government on Monday took further steps to cushion the effect of the insurgency in the North-eastern region of the country with the delivery of additional relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons {IDPs} in Chibok, Borno State.
This was made known in Yola, the Adamawa State capital by Alhaji Muhammed Kanar, the North-East Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Alhaji Kanar said the new delivery was in response to directives from the presidency.
Throwing more light on the activities of NEMA in the Chibok area, Alhaji Kanar said the agency was presently taking care of registered 10,376 IDPs in Chibok and its environs and that experts from the Safe School Initiative (SSI) has accompanied NEMA team to conduct a needs assessment on schools destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents in the area.
He also assured that the agency will provide boreholes to ease the perennial shortage of drinking water in the affected communities.
Items supplied include 1,200 bags of 10 kgs rice, 1,000 blankets, 500 mosquito nets and 500 mats, cooking oil and 500 bags of maize.
The District Head of Chibok, Mr. Modu Zanna represented by Alhaji Lawan Yerima-Amdan, thanked the presidency for the kind gesture, but appealed to the government to expedite action n the release of the abducted students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.
“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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