The National Emergency
Management Agency has taken a large quantity of relief materials to the
embattled Chibok community where over 200 schoolgirls who were writing
the Senior Secondary School were abducted by insurgents on April 14,
2014
NEMA’s National Press Officer, Ezekiel Manzo, made the comment while speaking at a press briefing organised by the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies and the I-Nigeria initiative in Abuja on Thursday.
Manzo said the relief materials were mainly building materials for temporary shelter, food and non-food household items.
He said the Director General of NEMA, Mohammed Sani-Sidi, had to mastermind the distribution of the materials to communities in need of them as part of the moves to encourage emergency officers to render similar support services to areas under crisis.
The NEMA Spokesman stated also that efforts to rebuild the Chibok community would commence after the insurgency had been curtailed.
According to him, there had been effective collaborative efforts between the agency, the military and other security agencies in the fight against terrorism, with relief materials being distributed to displaced members of attacked communities.
He said, “It is the reinforcement of what has been done earlier and this falls within the basic supplies that the people need like food, clothing, other materials for children, old and vulnerable people.
“Those are the kinds of the items that have been taken there because the relief we send to the North East generally is the one that is intended to cushion the effect of the humanitarian challenges they face because of the on-going state of insecurity.
“And I can say that with time the Federal Government has told the world and we know it is capable of bringing up rehabilitation programmes for the people.
“So what we are taking to Chibok is still items that will meet the basic needs of the people.”
NEMA’s National Press Officer, Ezekiel Manzo, made the comment while speaking at a press briefing organised by the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies and the I-Nigeria initiative in Abuja on Thursday.
Manzo said the relief materials were mainly building materials for temporary shelter, food and non-food household items.
He said the Director General of NEMA, Mohammed Sani-Sidi, had to mastermind the distribution of the materials to communities in need of them as part of the moves to encourage emergency officers to render similar support services to areas under crisis.
The NEMA Spokesman stated also that efforts to rebuild the Chibok community would commence after the insurgency had been curtailed.
According to him, there had been effective collaborative efforts between the agency, the military and other security agencies in the fight against terrorism, with relief materials being distributed to displaced members of attacked communities.
He said, “It is the reinforcement of what has been done earlier and this falls within the basic supplies that the people need like food, clothing, other materials for children, old and vulnerable people.
“Those are the kinds of the items that have been taken there because the relief we send to the North East generally is the one that is intended to cushion the effect of the humanitarian challenges they face because of the on-going state of insecurity.
“And I can say that with time the Federal Government has told the world and we know it is capable of bringing up rehabilitation programmes for the people.
“So what we are taking to Chibok is still items that will meet the basic needs of the people.”
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