As part of its efforts to contribute to the wellbeing of those less privileged, the Academic Staff Union of the University, Sokoto State chapter, donated food to 250 internally displaced persons in Sokoto on Tuesday.
Speaking while handing over the items, which include rice, beans, vegetable oil, salt, seasoning, and water, to the beneficiaries, the chairman of the beach, Professor Nurudeen Almustapha, said the gesture is part of the ASUU gesture to the less privileged.
“This is part of the programme initiated by our union to help the needy; this time around it is for Northwest and North Central. We are done with North Central, while we started with Northwest in Katsina.
“We have done it in Zamfara and Kebbi States and now in Sokoto today as part of the Northwest, where we are flagging off the distribution to give 250 members, all women of the IDPs.
“The union earmarked a sum of fifty million naira for this exercise in the North Central and North West. Other zones have received their own.
“The union is looking at it as part of our cooperative responsibilities to help the needy. That is why we tax ourselves a minimum of 2,000 naira for six months, which we gathered together in order to do this.”
The chairman also used the opportunity to call on the government at all levels to ensure they provide enough security to enable those in the IDP camp across the country to go back to their homes.
He further said ASUU has been given intellectual advice by the federal government on how to tackle insecurity in the country and thereby allow everyone living in the camp to go back to their homes.
Speaking earlier in his address, the Special Adviser to the Sokoto State Governor on State Emergency Management Authority (SEMA), Nasiru Garba Kalambina, assured that the current administration is doing everything within its power to ensure those in the camp go back home soonest.
He further said the state government, through SEMA, will soon extend palliatives to the people living in the IDP camp.
He said the governor has been engaging in high-level security meetings, which will bring permanent peace to all the troubled parts of the state soon.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke with our correspondent commend ASUU for the kind gesture while calling on all other groups or individuals in society to extend their hand of friendship to those living in the camp.
