Yobe state Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, has commended the World Food Programme (WFP) for its assistance, especially to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), as well as drought, flood victims.
The governor made the commendation yesterday when the country Director of the Programme, Ms. Myrta Kaulard, and Head of Area Office, North-east, paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Damaturu.
Gaidam said as result of the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents, over 300, 000 Yobe indigenes were displaced some accommodated in government IDPs camps while others with host communities.
He lauded the programme, saying: “I commend the efforts of the World Food Programme in providing help to the IDPs in the state through the provision of direct cash assistance to over 1, 250 households in Nguru and Gashua, as well as registering additional 1, 500 households waiting to be provided with cash assistance.”
Earlier, Ms. Kaulard thanked the governor for setting up a committee on resettlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction under the chairmanship of the Deputy Governor, Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu, which had, in no small measure, assisted those displaced to regain their livelihoods.
She said the cordial relationship enjoyed between the Yobe state government and the World Food Programme “is one of the secret that led to the success and achievements made by the both organisations.”
Blueprint gathered that state government had addressed humanitarian condition of its people by providing water, education, health facilities apart from the farming implements.
