BEVERLY HILLS, October 20, (THEWILL) – The Northeast region of the country devastated by the five-year-old Boko Haram will be rehabilitated by the Federal Government, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) has assured.
Giving the assurance Sunday when delivering relief materials to some internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Chibok, Borno State, was the Northeast zonal coordinator of NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar.
He assured that the Federal Government would ensure that everything necessary is done to rehabilitate the several thousands of people affected by the insurgency and renovate all the public buildings destroyed since the crisis started.
Kanar also promised that NEMA would provide boreholes for them to ease the perennial shortage of potable water.
Earlier on Friday, the NEMA boss had led a team on Friday to Kalaa in Hong Local Government of Adamawa State to deliver relief materials to the IDPs in the area where he also assured that the Federal Government was only waiting for normalcy to return to the Northeast before unveiling the massive rehabilitation and reconstruction plans.
While in Kalaa, the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the area, Pastor Tatami Elkana, and the Chairman of the area Muslim council, Abubakar Kunliyi , while receiving the relief items on behalf of the IDPs, expressed their appreciation to President Goodluck Jonathan for providing the relief materials to the community.
Kanar who was accompanied to Chibok by experts from the Safe School Initiative who conducted the needs assessment on schools destroyed by the insurgents in the town and other places affected. Welcoming the Federal Government’s gesture were representatives of the IDPs including Dr. Danladi and Pastor Enoch who responded on behalf of the others, expressing satisfaction over the gesture.
According to them, NEMA under the Director General, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, has been very helpful in alleviating their suffering and providing them succour.
