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NEMA, UN To Provide Temporary Shelter For IDPs In North East

The National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA), says it is working in collaboration with the United Nations and other international humanitarian and faith based organisations to provide … Continue reading NEMA, UN To Provide Temporary Shelter For IDPs In North East


NEMA Raises Alarm, Seeks Collaboration Against Flood

NEMAThe National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA), says it is working in collaboration with the United Nations and other international humanitarian and faith based organisations to provide temporary accommodation for the over two million people that were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgents in the north east since June 2015.

The Director General of the agency, Mohammed Sidi, disclosed this while receiving an award for community service by the Rotary Club of Kakuri, in Kaduna State.

Mr Sidi, who was represented at the event by the Director of Training, Musa Zakari, said that the agency has established humanitarian cells in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, and is also collaborating with the military to provide emergency relief assistance to communities ravaged by the terrorist attacks.

He further explained that NEMA is already working closely with the governments of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and other humanitarian actors to conduct a comprehensive damage and loss assessment in the affected areas to provide exit packages to affected persons who have chosen to return to their various communities.

According to him, with the liberation of most of the communities hitherto under the occupation of the insurgents and the massive return of Nigerian refugees from Cameroun and Niger, the humanitarian outlook has therefore changed from short-term relief intervention to rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery of the affected persons and communities.

While explaining that the tasks of settling the internally displaced persons are enormous for government alone to bear, Mr Sidi called on the Rotary Club and other humanitarian organisations in the country to assist the agency in providing  humanitarian services to victims to enable them return to normal life.