The Federal Government has given 370.5 tonnes of grains and other relief materials to Katsina State for distribution to most vulnerable citizens and to flood victims.
NEMA’s Director-General, Alhaji Mustapha Habib-Ahmed, handed over the items to the state government.
He was represented at the occasion by NEMA’s Director, Finance and Accounts, Alhaji Sani Jiba.
The items were distributed through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
Habib-Ahmed said all the states of the federation and the FCT also got relief materials for the most vulnerable and for flood victims.
According to him, the grains for Katsina State were 166 tonnes of maize, 142 tonnes of sorghum and 62.5 tonnes of millet.
“That is the state’s share out of the 12,000 tonnes of grains taken from the strategic grains reserve as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari,’’ he said.
The director-general also distributed relief materials to victims of the other natural and human-induced disasters in the state.
The items approved for the state were 1,000 bags each of rice, maize and beans, salt, vegetable oil, seasoning cubes, tinned tomato, nylon mats and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
Others were clothing materials for children, women and men.
“We are here to sympathise and commiserate with flood victims, and deliver grains approved by Mr President for distribution to vulnerable Nigerians in the state as well as to deliver relief materials for 2022 flood victims,’’ he said.
He warned beneficiaries against selling the items, saying that was why NEMA was imprinted on the bags.
The items were received by the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Babangida Mohammed-Nasamu, on behalf of the state governor, Alhaji Aminu Masari.
Mohammed-Nasamu assured that the items would be distributed to the targeted people like victims of banditry and flooding and to vulnerable people.
Speaking on behalf of beneficiaries from affected local government areas, the Director, Administration and Finance, Kafur Local Government Council, Alhaji Sada Ahmed, commended the Federal Government for the effort.
