The federal government through the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI. has given succour to over one thousand persons displaced during last year’s flood disaster in Awba-Ofemili in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra.
ANN reports that the relief materials given to the people by the federal agency were 122 bags of 25kg bags of rice, 122 cartons of instant noodles, 122 bags of semo, 21 cartons of 4.5 litres of canned groundnut oil, seven bags of sachet salt, and 20 cartons of maggi.
Handing over the items to people of Awba-Ofemili, the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Hajia Imaam Sulaiman-Ibrahim represented by Principal Administration Officer of the agency, Mrs Gloria Ene explained that the relief materials were to cushion the effects of last year’s flood disaster on the people, asking the community leaders to ensure the equitable distribution of the items, and warned the people against selling them.
Hajia Sulaiman-Ibrahim assured that the Buhari led administration will continue to make efforts towards alleviating the sufferings of Nigerians.
Speaking, a Special Assistant to the Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Security Matters, Chief Ignatius Okafor thanked the federal government for remembering Awba-Ofemili people, saying that the flood really dealt with people in the community, as people like him lost over ten plots of yam farms, five plots of rice farms and cassava farms, many properties.Â
Chief Okafor said that though it has been long the flood receded, people of Awba-Ofemili still need help from the government and good spirited individuals as the effects of the disaster is still much on them, according to him they now buy everything from the market, and have no seedlings and financial capacity to cultivate this farming season.
Some of the beneficiaries from the relief materials while appreciating the federal government for the kind gesture, narrated their ugly experiences during the flood outbreak last year, saying that they lost rice farms, money that they borrowed with hope to pay back after harvest, lamenting that the flood now left them and their families with nothing.
