FG Provides Relief Materials To IDPs In Minna

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(Front-Roll) (5th Right) The Representative of the Honourable Minster of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, Acting Director Humanitarian Affairs, Abubakar Suleiman, (5th Left), (4th Left) Secretary to the Government of Niger State, Ibrahim Ahmed Mateni, (3rd Right) Hajia Zainab Saidu of (NEMA), Director General Niger State Emergency Management Agency Ahmed Ibrahim Inga and other dignitaries during a courtesy visit to the Governor of Niger State during the handover of relief materials to the IDP Camp in Gwada, Niger State.
(Front-Roll) (5th Right) The Representative of the Honourable Minster of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, Acting Director Humanitarian Affairs, Abubakar Suleiman, (5th Left), (4th Left) Secretary to the Government of Niger State, Ibrahim Ahmed Mateni, (3rd Right) Hajia Zainab Saidu of (NEMA), Director General Niger State Emergency Management Agency Ahmed Ibrahim Inga and other dignitaries during a courtesy visit to the Governor of Niger State during the handover of relief materials to the IDP Camp in Gwada, Niger State.
(Front-Roll) (5th Right) The Representative of the Honourable Minster of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, Acting Director Humanitarian Affairs, Abubakar Suleiman, (5th Left), (4th Left) Secretary to the Government of Niger State, Ibrahim Ahmed Mateni, (3rd Right) Hajia Zainab Saidu of (NEMA), Director General Niger State Emergency Management Agency Ahmed Ibrahim Inga and other dignitaries during a courtesy visit to the Governor of Niger State during the handover of relief materials to the IDP Camp in Gwada, Niger State.

The Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has expressed Federal government commitment in supporting the internally displaced persons in Niger State through the provision of relief materials to the vulnerable.
She disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor of Niger State, His Excellency, Alhaji Ahmed Moh’d Kelso.

Speaking through her representative the Acting Director, Humanitarian Affairs Department of the Ministry, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, ” we are here to interact and access your conditions and to deliver relief materials, food and non- food items, so as to alleviate the sufferings that you have been unnecessarily subjected to” the Minister said.
The items to be distributed to the vulnerable include 600 bags of rice (25 kg), 200 kegs of palm oil, 50 bales of clothes, 10 sacks of rubber slippers and 20 cartons of body cream.
In a similar development, the Minister during the assessment visit to the camp in Gwada, called on well – meaning Nigerians to join hands with the Federal and State Governments to provide relief materials to displaced communities in the society.
She urged everyone to use the month of Ramadan to intensity prayers to Almighty Allah to protect all Nigerians and free our communities of all calamities especially during this last ten days Of Ramadan.
The Deputy Governor of Niger State, His Excellency, Alhaji Ahmed Moh’d Kelso, expressed gratitude for the intervention of the Federal government through the Ministry.He said the intervention cannot replace the desire to be settled in their homes as they have experienced.
He urge the Ministry’s delegation to visit the camps to assess the situation and see other interventions it could provide.
He further directed the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Ibrahim Ahmed Mateni to lead the delegation to the camp, mentioning other IDP camps in Shiroro, Munyar, Rafi and Mariga.
The Secretary to the State Government Ibrahim Ahmed who received the items expressed gratitude to Ministry for the donation of the items on behalf of the Executive Governor.

Grace Osuji
For:DD (Information)
6th May, 2021

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