The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday that it will resume weekly supply of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, Borno state, following the successful conduct of the 2015 general elections in the state and other parts of the North-east sub region.
Alhaji Mohammed Kanar, the NEMA North-east coordinator stated this at the end of a stakeholders meeting in Maiduguri.
Kanar explained that the agency had suspended its operations during the general elections to avoid politicising the exercise.
“We had to stay back for a while, because a number of polling units were located at the camps. We do not want to be involved in the politics at the camps during the elections”, Kanar said.
He added, however, that NEMA had continued to provide essential materials at the camps even during the general elections without any problem or sentiment.
“Although we rushed in to provide some materials at the Lamisla Primary Schools to the IDPs from Northern Borno who were displaced few days to the election. We felt that the best thing was to suspend large scale distribution of relief materials to avoid politicisation,” Kanar said.
The Zonal Coordinator said however that now that the elections are over, the agency had mobilized its staff and materials to the IDPs camps to continue its intervention programme.
“Last week, we presented trailer loads of food and non food materials to IDP camps in Dalori, the NYSC camp among others. We have just received 10 new tents from the head office for onward distribution to some IDP camps like the Federal Training Center Dalori, where the rescued Bama residents are being kept,” Kanar said.
