National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has provided relief items to victims of the recent attack in Bokkos Local Government Area in Plateau State.
Director-General of the agency, Mrs Zubaida Umar, who led the delegation on a visit to the Chairman of Bokkos Local Government, Mr Amalau Amalau, Monday in Jos, expressed deep sympathy to the victims and their families.
Umar, who was represented by NEMA‘s Director, North -Central, Mr Aliyu Waziri, told Amalau that the agency was directed by the president to provide immediate succour to victims of the recent attacks.
The director-general said the gesture was also in line with the agency’s mandate of timely intervention to save lives in disaster and emergency situations.
She noted that the agency had earlier conducted a rapid response assessment to know the immediate needs of the victims.
According to her, more relief items such as building materials will be distributed to enable the people get back on their feet.
Umar said the items donated consist of food and non food items.
In his response, the council boss, who spoke during the distribution of the items to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at St Thomas Apostolic Parish in Bokkos, commended the federal government for its swift response in providing succour to the victims.
Amalau said the assailants came in their numbers on motorcycles, killed and injured so many persons and also burnt houses, looted foodstuffs and livestocks.
The chairman appealed for more security personnel to be deployed to the area and for the various telecommunications service providers to erect masts in the villages, as most of them lack telecommunications network.
The food items donated include bags of rice, garri, maize, cartons of tomato paste, seasoning cubes, pasta, noodles, bags of iodised salt and cartons of vegetable oil, while the non-food items are bundles of mosquito nets and blankets, mattresses, nylon mats, plastic buckets, cups, female wears, and clothing materials.
The agency also visited some of the victims who were on admission at the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos.
Receiving the delegation, the Chief Medical Director, CMD, Professor Chris Yilgwan, commended the director-general for responding swiftly to the plight of the hospitalised victims.
Similarly, she visited Governor Caleb Mutfwang to sympathise with the government and people of the state.
She said NEMA was in the state to work in synergy with the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA.
In his response, Mutfwang, who was represented by his Deputy, Mrs Josephine Piyo, lauded NEMA’s swift response to bring succour to the victims through the relief items.
