NEMA Donates Relief Supplies To Yobe Victims Freed By Boko Haram
The Vice Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Professor Ibrahim Njodi has called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to support the indigent students and children of those affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
The Vice Chancellor, who disclosed this when the Director-General of the NEMA paid him a courtesy call at the Council Chambers of the University said “70 percent of my students came from the North-east which is being faced with Boko Haram insurgency, hence the need for your agency to assist the indigent and displaced students”.
He said “just recently a foundation called “Abdul Kabir foundation” has offered a scholarship to 100 indigent students of the university, with N100,000 each; I believe your agency should also come in to assist other indigent students ravaged by the insurgency”.
He assured NEMA that University of Maiduguri will continue to partner with the agency, more especially through the Disaster and Risk Management and Development Centre.
The Vice Chancellor stated that the centre since inception has graduated 250 students in Masters Degree and Post graduate Diploma in disaster and Risks Management and assured that the university will continue to render support to the agency, more especially in the post insurgency reconstruction and rehabilitation.
He also informed the DG that most of the staff of the institution were from the north-east, as such the university was also playing host to many IDPS, because according to him the IDPs were living with their friends and relations.
He called on the agency to consider the university as 23rd IDP camp in Maiduguri.
Earlier speaking, the DG NEMA Alhaji Sani Sidi said NEMA will continue to partner with the university, more especially in their task of reconstruction and rehabilitation of the destroyed communities.
He said “I am in Maiduguri to see how fast we will relocate the IDPs back to their communities; we will continue to partner with the university in disaster and risks management Centre established in collaboration with NEMA”.
The DG said there were over 1.5 million IDPs in Nigeria with Borno State having over 70 percent of the IDPs spread across 22 camps within Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
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