ABDULLAHI ISAH, Maiduguri
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has appealed to journalists in the country to collaborate with the agency in addressing the humanitarian challenges of displaced Boko Haram victims in the northeast.
Director General of the agency, Alhaji Sani Sidi who declared open the 3-day roundtable workshop with journalists and information officers of the agency in the northeast states, said the media was very crucial in tackling challenges of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the northeast.
He called on media practitioners to support the move by the Federal Government to rehabilitate and resettle IDPs.
The DG represented by the Northeast zone coordinator of the agency, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar said the workshop would enhance reportage skills and relationship strategy aimed at managing disaster posed by Boko Haram insurgents.
“This workshop is expected to help enhance media reporting skills during emergencies using enhanced media relation strategy.
“It is in this light; NEMA is organizing this workshop to ensure that information managers are abreast with h activities of the agency especially in rehabilitation of victims of Boko Haram and planned reconstruction of destroyed communities so that they can effectively keep the public better informed,” he said.
He urged all participants to utilize the benefit of the programme. He said the support and cooperation by stakeholders on humanitarian crisis in the northeast should be commended, adding that their joint efforts to provide succour to millions of displaced persons affected by the insurgency have helped tremendously in alleviating much of the pains of the people of the area.
