The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has praised Yobe State over the way and manner the state has so far managed items sent for displaced persons in the state.
According to the Director of Training of the agency, Malam Musa Zakari who represented the DG at the handing over of relief materials to the state in Damaturu said the agency has never heard of any case of diversion of relief materials in the state.
Malam Zakari during a courtesy call on the deputy Gov. Engr. Abubakar Aliyu added that NEMA will continue to play its role in cushioning the suffering of the displaced people.
He called on the state to ensure that the items get to the people in need of them.
“Our visit here today is in continaution of our hummanitarian mission. NEMA is particularly impressed with Yobe State Government over the way it has handled relief materials sent to the state. Yobe remains the only state that we have not had any case of diversion of IDPs food or other relief materials.
“This record is impressive and we are very happy and we commend the state for the excellent service. We therefore hope that the tempo will continue so that what we have brought here today will also get to the benefiacies,” Malam Zakari said.
Earlier, the Deputy Gov. Engr. Aliyu, who is also the State Chairman of the Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement of IDPs while receiving the NEMA delegation said the state is gradually moving away from the humanitarian problem to reconstruction and resettlement of the displaced people.
According to him, the people at the moment are in dire need of reconstructing their homes and other livilihoods that will keep them moving.
Engr. Aliyu explained that the state has embarked on the reconstruction of health facilities and schools that wereally destroyed by the insurgents.
He also disclosed that the state will close the remaining IDP camp at Pompomari as soon as it gets clearance from security operatives on the safety of those areas.
Our correspondent reports that items brought to the state by NEMA include Rice 4800 of 50kg, 4800 maize 4800 millet 2000 beans Vegetable oil 300 and 300 gallons of red oil.