Humanitarian Ministry distributes relief materials to IDPs in Niger State

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar  Farouq, has expressed the Federal Government’s commitment to support the Internally  Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Niger State,  North-Central Nigeria, through the provision of relief materials to the vulnerable.

The Minister disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor, Ahmed Moh’d  Kelso.

Speaking through her representative the Acting Director, Humanitarian Affairs Department of the Ministry, Dr Abubakar Suleiman, she said

“We are here to interact and access your conditions and to deliver relief materials, food and non-food items, so as to alleviate the sufferings that you have been unnecessarily subjected to,“ the Minister said.

The Minister further paid an assessment visit to the IDPs camp in Gwada, where she called on well-meaning Nigerians to join hands with the Federal and State Governments to provide relief materials to displaced communities in the society.

She urged everyone to use the month of Ramadan to intensity prayers to Almighty Allah to protect all Nigerians and free the communities of all calamities especially during these last ten days Of Ramadan.

For his part, the Deputy Governor expressed gratitude for the intervention of the Federal Government through the Ministry saying the intervention cannot replace the desire of the IDPs to be settled in their homes.

He urged the Ministry’s delegation to visit the camps to assess the situation and see other interventions it could provide.

The Items distributed are; 600 bags of rice (25 kg), 200 kegs of palm oil, 50 bales of clothes, 10 sacks of rubber slippers and 20 cartons of body cream.

PIAK