NEMA distributes N5m relief materials to IDPs in Yobe

By Sadiq Abubakar
Maiduguri

Three weeks after the multiple explosions that rocked Damaturu town, the Yobe state capital, killing 18 people, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has visited the affected with  food and other items as palliatives.
NEMA also visited the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Kukareta of Damaturu town in its efforts to reduce hardships faced by the people, who recently relocated to the state capital.

Presenting the items to the victims and the IDPs, the NEMA state coordinator in Yobe, Alhaji Bashir Garga, said the food and the other materials cost the Agency the sum of N5 million.
Atone of the residence of those killed in the blasts, the NEMA coordinator said nine members of one family were killed in the blast which caused havoc to a local settlement at the outskirt of Damaturu town with few survivors mostly children and their bread winners in the hospital.