The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says it is committed to the provision of humanitarian services, to people impacted by natural and human induced disasters.
Director General NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Habib Ahmed made the indication, while flagging off the distribution of palliatives to internally displaced persons in Kano.
According to him, the King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Centre (KSrelief), has donated assorted food items to the National Emergency Management Agency, for distribution to five hundred displaced persons and people impacted by disasters.
The director general, who was represented by NEMA Director Planning, Research and Forecasting, Hajiya Fatima Kasim, highlighted that, KSrelief collaboration with NEMA, dates back to 2018 – 2021, where it donated relief materials in form of food baskets to IDPs in Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states.
Alhaji Mustapha stressed that, the 500 food baskets donated to Kano state, would go a long way in contributing to the recovery process of the beneficiaries that have been impacted by disasters.
“Each of the benefitting household received, rice, beans, masa vita, tomato paste, groundnut oil, salt, cubes”
Earlier in his welcome address, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Saleh Aliyu Jili commended the foundation for the kind gesture.
He pointed out that, 500 vulnerable house holds from Bunkure communities, received relief materials, saying that, the donation is the first of its kind in Kano.
Dr. Jili charged beneficiaries to use the items judiciously, and appreciated the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and its Kano – Jigawa territorial office, for influencing and directing the donation to the state.
In his remarks, the Deputy Counsel General Saudi Embassy Kano, Alhaji Nawaf Muhammad, explained that, the foundation has provided 8,050 food baskets to Kano, Yobe and Borno states.
He noted that, KSrelief had been executing charity, which targets the needy such as those profiled by NEMA and SEMA in Kano.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to Radio Nigeria, Ibrahim Tazarce and Abdulaziz Muhammad, called for sustainability of the charity program.
They thanked NEMA and SEMA for profiling them to be part of the beneficiaries.
KHADIJAH ALIYU