As part of strategic plan by the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to build capacities among the Internally Displaced Person’s (IDP’s) in the FCT for self-reliance and wealth creation, it has trained more than 500 IDP’s in different IDP settlements on improved rice processing technology in collaboration with Japan International Corporation (JICA).
The FEMA Director General, Alh. Idriss Abbas made this known when he received a delegation from JICA who paid him a courtesy call in his office in Abuja, recently.
While commending JICA for their support since 2014, Abbas said the bilateral cooperation between both organisations has empowered the IDP’s to embark on worthwhile ventures that has provided them with economic succor and self-reliance and also led to the training of some FEMA personnel to Japan on capacity development for Flood Risk Management.
“That the IDP’s are not only trained, but that FEMA has gone ahead to empower them with starter packs, to enable them make proper use of the trainings given to them, adding that Malaysia Garden and Waru IDP’s settlement have recently benefited from the starter packs and more settlement will partake of this gesture,” he added
The Director General FEMA, urged the IDP’s to take full advantage of the capacity building training to improve their knowledge on paddy rice process which will in turn help them even when they decide to retire back to their various homes in the North-east.
He also called on NGO’s and other well-meaning Nigerians to emulate the exemplary steps taken by FEMA to come up with similar programmes that will better the live of the IDP’s.
Earlier, the Leader of the delegation and Senior Adviser JICA Headquarter, Ms. Komakai Eri, stated that the ongoing paddy rice training for IDP’s in the FCT was part of efforts of the Japanese Government aimed at peace building, on the ground of restoring bonds between local government in the country and the community.
