Victims of recent attacks in Damboa Local Government Council of Borno State, by the Boko Haram insurgents received relief materials worth millions of naira from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Presenting the materials in Gombe State, the Agency’s Assistant Director Relief and Rehabilitation, Alhaji Saidu Mirin, who represented the Director General, assured the victims of federal government’s readiness to continue to extend the much needed helping hands to them.
“We quite appreciate the effort of Gombe State government, in providing a permanent relief camp for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Nigerian government sympathised with the people of Damboa who have migrated from Borno State because of insurgency to Gombe State.
“Policemen, the Civil Defense Corps and health officials are all on ground to protect the IDPs, to compliment the effort of the state government.
“NEMA has erected latrines, VIP toilets and also supplied food and non edible items for the use of the IDPs. I want to assure here that government will continue to support these people as long as they remain in the camp,” he said.
Earlier, the Executive Director of the Gombe State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Arabs Rukujei, who described NEMA as the best relief agency in Africa, reiterated the readiness of the state to continue to put smiles on the faces of the IDPs presently domiciled in the state.
