The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it distributed over 7,000 metric tonnes of assorted food items to persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno in the past two months.
Mr E. Umesi, the NEMA Coordinator of Emergency Food Intervention for the Northeast, made the disclosure on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.
Umesi said that the agency distributed the food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri and other liberated communities.
According to Umesi, “We went to do enumeration of liberated areas; we have virtually done that everywhere, even in areas where people find it difficult to live we went there.
“We have gone to Mafa, Dikwa, Gwoza, Bama, Benishiek and Jekana.
“Last week, we were at Biu and Hawul Local Government Areas, where we distributed food items in Biu, Kimba, Kwaja, Kwajafa, Shafa.
“We were able to distribute food items in 10 of the liberated communities; so far we have distributed over 200 trucks”.
He explained that the intervention had allocated about 15,000 tonnes of food items to Borno, adding that NEMA has registered over 1.8 million displaced persons in the state.