BY:USMAN IBRAHIM GEIDAM
Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) today Sunday distributed relief materials worth millions of naira to 25 thousand households/victims affected by flood in the year 2022 accross 17 local
Government Areas of the state.
The event for the distribution of the relief items which took place at the Event Centre Government House Damaturu was chaired by Governor Mai Mala
Buni.
It could be recalled that last year 2022, there have been incidences of flood Disaster across Nigeria which some parts of Yobe State were among.
To this end, Governments at various levels activated series of interventions with a view to cushion the hardship faced by the masses as a result of the floods.
In Yobe, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) remained the coordinating body of such interventions.
The Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), initiated an intervention programme called "Special National Economic Livelihood Emergency Intervention" (SNELEI) which identified and assessed the victims of the 2022 flood disaster across the country for onward action.
Flagging off the Distribution of the items provided to the people of the state, Governor Mai Mala Buni thanked the
officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and
members of the humanitarian community who are in the state for the programme.
He further said, the SNELEI intervention is aimed at
supporting the long-term recovery of Nigeria from the 2022 flood
disaster and the drive for the sustainable socio-economic recovery of the
country from the current challenges of oil subsidy withdrawal and high
rate of inflation
He described the intervention as timely pointing out that the relief package contains
food items, livelihood support materials such as improved seeds and
stools which will go a long way in closing the gaps created by subsidy
removal thereby boosting the 2022 flood disaster-affected households’
income and agricultural productivity.
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