NEMA Donates Relief Items to Victims of Plateau Attacks

Relief items have been provided by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to victims of the recent attack in communities within Bokkos Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State.

The Director-General (D-G), of NEMA, Mrs Zubaida Umar, who led the delegation on a visit to Mr Amalau Amalau, Chairman of Bokkos LGA.on Monday in Jos, expressed deep sympathy to the victims and their families.

Umar, who was represented by Mr Aliyu Waziri, NEMA ‘s Director, North -Central, told Amalau, that the agency was directed by the President to provide immediate succour to the victims of the recent attacks in the LGA.

The D-G said the gesture was also in line with the agency’s mandate of timely intervention to save lives in disaster and emergency situations.

She further said 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 to get back on their feet.

Umar said the items donated consisted of both food and non food items.

In his response, the Bokkos council boss, who spoke during the distribution of the items to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the 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 the villages lacked telecommunications network.

NAN reports that the food items donated included bags of rice, garri, maize, cartons of tomatoes paste, seasoning cubes, pasta, noodles, bags of iodised salt and cartons of vegetable oil.

While the non-food items consisted of bundles of mosquito nets and blankets, mattresses, nylon mats, plastic buckets, cups, female wears, and clothing materials.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 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), Prof. Chris Yilgwan, commended the D-G for responding swiftly to the plight of the hospitalised victims.

Similarly, the D-G visited Gov. Caleb Mutfwang, to sympathise with the government and people of the state.

She said that 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 in bringing succour to the victims through the relief items.

NAN reports that the communities attacked were Ruwi, Hurti, Tadal, Gwande, Manguna and Dafo villages in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau.