The north-west zonal co-coordinator of the National Emergency management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Musa Ilallah, has donated relief materials worth thousands of Naira to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Mubi, Adamawa state, who were camped at a permanent site in Dawakin Kudu local government area of Kano state.
Distributing the relief materials to the victims, at the camp in Dawakin Kudu, yesterday Ilallah said the federal government was deeply concerned about their dismal plight, adding that donating relief materials to internally displaced persons affected by the insurgency in some parts of the North has became a continuous exercise.
He, however, stated that the federal government was taken every step to assist the needy in critical conditions, stressing that the insurgency had taken a heavy toll on the government and that it is the responsibility of the Agency to do something concrete to come to the aid of those devastated by the insurgents’ war fare.
When asked to give the estimate of what had cost the government to buy the relief materials donated to the victims, Ilallah further revealed that he would not be categorical do to the fluctuating trend in the market, saying that the federal government had put a lot of resources in purchasing the materials.
He gave the assurance that the federal government would continue to sustain the tempo, stressing, however, that distributing relief materials to those affected by disaster of this magnitude was the major concern of the federal government.