The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has flagged off the distribution of relief items to over 900 households at Shwari IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State.
The relief items distributed include: mattresses, pillows, blankets, footwears, wrappers and treated insecticide mosquito nets.
The Minister also assured the 480,000 unregistered IDPs that the federal government was mindful of their plight and humanitarian needs, adding that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, geared towards eradicating poverty will cover them directly, as it works with the state government.
Edu in a statement on Saturday by her Media Aide, Rasheed Zubair, promised the IDPs that the social register, conditional cash transfer and other social intervention programmes of the federal government would be extended to them.
Dr. Edu while expressing hope that the relief items will go a long way in cushioning their harsh living condition, added that the government will provide more durable solutions for them to cater for their families.
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She stated: “The goal is to get everybody wherever they are out of poverty and humanitarian crises; this is the commitment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The President has directed that Nigerians who are living under one dollar per day, not even one dollar ninety-five cents daily, should be reached and pulled out of poverty.
“Vocations and skill training, micro small and medium size enterprises amongst other interventions are important for those who are here and ready, but for those who can trace where they came from, we will reunite them with their families and provide them with economic start-up capital to remove them and their families out of poverty.
“For some of you who have lost your husbands or children, Mr President says your resettlement is inevitable, in partnership with the state government and other development partners.