Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
Saudi Arabia has donated 16, 000 food baskets to about 16, 000 households taking refuge at the Muna Garage Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Borno state.
The IDPs along with their children and wives were attacked and sacked by Boko Haram insurgents to continue to live in the camp for over seven years.
The distribution of the food baskets becomes the third donated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid Relief Centre.
While receiving the food items for distribution, yesterday (Thursday), in Maiduguri, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), represented by Hajiya Fatima Kassim, the Agency’s Acting Director of Planning, disclosed: “Comparable assistance was also rendered of the food baskets in Yobe and Zamfara states victims of conflict.”
“The centre had donated 16,000 food baskets of relief materials to 16,000 households in Borno state for two cycles of 8,000 households each in different camps, in December 2022.
She said that each of the households is expected to get 59.8 kilogrammes basket of food comprising each of 25kg of rice and beans, four kg of Masavita flour, two kg of tomato paste; a litres of cooking oil; a kilogram salt and 0.8kg of seasoning cubes.
Besides, she added that the distribution of food baskets were also made in December 2022 at El-Miskin, Doro, Ashiri, Shuwari IDP camps including Nganzai town.
According to her; “This second phase of distribution will take place in Muna Kumburi, Gongulong, Madinatu I and Madinatu II IDP camps.”
She said that the distribution of food items would go a long way in alleviating the sufferings of the victims of conflict in the state.
“The distribution would be by NEMA in collaboration with the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to ensure that it reaches the intended beneficiaries affected in the over a decade insurgency.
Three beneficiaries including Kolomi Mustafa, Jidda Annur, Aisha Kachalla and Falmata Mustafa, lauded the gesture, stating that it was timely and a great relief to their families.
