NEMA Delivers Relief Materials To Borno Govt

In preparedness for rebuilding all destroyed Borno State Communities by
Boko Haram, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has delivered over 450 metric tons of relief materials to Governor Kashim Shettima for onward distribution to 25 affected towns and villages in the state.

Presenting the materials yesterday at the agency’s central store in Maiduguri, the Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Sidi said that the materials comprised cement, roofing sheets, nails, blanks, clothes, mattresses and food items such as rice and beans.

His words: “I welcome you to this handing over of relief items to the Borno State Government for communities recently liberated by the military from insurgents’ control. Already, the agency has started delivering food items to communities in Dikwa, Bama, Konduga, and Kaga Local Government Areas of Borno State with Gwoza and Askira/Uba being the next locations to be covered by the delivery of these relief items.
“As you are aware, your excellency, the committee set up by the state government to relocate Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) living in schools to non-school camps which will enable academic activities to resume in schools within the state has been working tirelessly in conjunction with NEMA and other stakeholders to ensure that the target of the committee for schools to resume before the end of October is met.”

Responding, Shettima said that his administration will stand and support NEMA in the rehabilitation, rebuilding and resettling of destroyed communities along with the over 1.5 million IDPs.

He said the agency’s work would be written in gold, as this was the 12th time Sidi was visiting the state in resettling and taking care of all IDPs sacked from their respective communities by Boko Haram insurgency.

His words: “We have now moved to the stage of rehabilitating and rebuilding some of the destroyed communities in Gwoza, Askira and Uba towns. Already, the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Resettlements has remoulded 750, 000 units of concrete blocks in Bama. This will also enable the IDPs return to their respective communities before the end of this year,” adding that the materials would be delivered to the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.