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Mrs Aisha Buhari.

Managing 1.6 million IDPs is a huge burden which Borno govt cannot handle alone – Mrs Shettima

Mrs Aisha Buhari.
Mrs Aisha Buhari.

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH, MAIDUGURI

The wife of Borno state Governor, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima has said that the management and feeding of about 1.6 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has become a herculean task which the Borno state government alone cannot handle and therefore called on individuals, corporate and Non Governmental Organizations to emulate the Senate committee on Women Affairs and Health by donating either in cash or kind to alleviate the sufferings of the IDPs.

Hajiya Nanah Shettima stated this when she paid a visit to Dalori IDP camps I & II and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN centre) in Maiduguri to inspect the quality of beans cooked and distributed to children of IDPs between the ages of 1 to 7 years.

Hajiya Nana said Borno is the worst-hit state in the north east which had suffered devastating attacks by insurgents in the last six years, and pleaded that ‘all hands must be on deck to carter for the needs of the displaced people.’

The beans, according to her, was bought with the N2 million donated last week by the Senate committee on Women Affairs and officials of the ‘Future Assured’ a pet project of wife of President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, led by Senator Oluremi Tinubu to feed the children in the next one week.

She said “I am visiting these camps to monitor the beans being purchased with the N2 million donated by Senate committee on Women Affairs and officials of the Future Assured for the feeding of our children in camps, you know that beans has a high rate of protein which is good to the health of our children.

“I want to sincerely thank this committee for not only visiting our state to see our IDPs, but to also initiate weekly feeding of our children in camps with beans supplement. I am much satisfied with the quality and quantity of the beans being served in all the camps, and I want to assure that, this initiative is going to be a continuous one”, she added.

“I am appealing to individuals and corporate organizations to emulate the Senate committee on women Affairs and Health by assisting Borno state Government with cash or kind to enable it carter for our IDPs, as government is doing all its best to see that all our destroyed communities are reconstructed for displaced people to go back home,” she stated.

She however promised to immediately shoulder the responsibility of providing firewood and charcoal for all the kitchens in the camps, as most of the women IDPs complained of lack of firewood to cook.

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