NEMA Distributes Palliatives To Thousand Households In Adamawa Communities
By Umar Dankano,Yola
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA in collaboration with the Adamawa State Emergency Managemen t Agency,ADSEMA has distributed relief materials worth millions of Naira to one thousand (1000) vulnerable households of three communities in Adamawa State.
Distributing the palliatives which are solely food items at the government’s Central store in Yola weekend,Mr Ladan Ayuba, Head of Operation, NEMA in charge of Adamawa and Taraba states said that, the intervention was meant to assist the internally displaced persons, IDPs, Vulnerable households and people with special needs in the state.
Ayuba explained that, the federal government in its commitment to ease hardship experiencing by vulnerable Nigerians decided to released the palliatives with a sole aim to cushion the effects of the present day challenges confronting many households.
Ayuba charged the beneficiaries to make sure the food items are judiciously put in to use noting that the federal and state governments are poised in providing the dividends of good governance to its teeming electorate in perspectives that have direct bearings on the citizens.
He maintained that the food items were shared to vulnerable households from Hulere,Sangere bode and Ngurore comm unities as well as Internally Displaced persons(IDPs) of the four(4) closed IDP’s camps whom have relocated to various communities in the state.
Responding to the intervention, Comrade Abdullahi Toungo, Chairman of National Association of People With Physical Disability, Adamawa State chapter applauded the support saying it has came at the right time considering the realities of the day in the country.
Toungo said that the intervention will go a long way to reducing the economic crunch bedeviling vulnerable residents in the benefiting communities appealing for more assistance for other communities that are yet to benefit.
“We are very happy with this gesture from the government as l appeal for more interventions so that other communities can benefit too”.Toungo said.
Also in their separate reactions at the venue of the distribution,Mrs Azumi Bala from Hulere community and Umar Datti Mohammed expressed gratitudes to the Agencies for the intervention noting that the gesture shows that the government has its citizens at heart and as a major priority.
Mrs Azumi Hulere confessed that she is a mother of eight children and that, the timely gesture will really reduce the burden on her household while on his part, Mohammed Ngurore who spoken with an emotional tune prayed that God Almighty should reward those behind the support which he said “shouldn’t have come better than now”.
The Food items shared by the NEMA and ADSEMA officials include; 25 Kg bags of parboiled rice,25kg bags of beans,4 litre- gallons of ground nut oil, packages of Maggi cubes and packages of processed tomatoes paste with each beneficiary given each of items mentioned above.
Our correspondent reports that the exercise was conducted peacefully and orderly under the watchful eyes of the security personnel who monitored the distribution of the relief items.