Through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid Relief Centre (KSrelief), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has provided aid to roughly 16,000 homes in Borno State that are struggling due to terrorism and insurgency.
The third batch of donations for the victims of terror attacks in the state were given to representatives of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) who will then distribute them to the recipients.
On Thursday, the Director General of NEMA, Ahmed Habib, stated that similar support was also being provided to terror victims in the states of Yobe and Zamfara as he accepted the supplies at the Muna Kumburi IDPs camp.
“The centre had donated baskets of relief materials to each of the 16,000 households in Borno for two cycles of 8,000 households each in different camps, in December 2022,” Habib, who was represented by the Acting Director of Planning, NEMA, Fatima Kassim, said.
“Each household is expected to have 59.8 kilogrammes basket of food made up of 25kg of rice, 25kg of beans, 4kg of Masavita flour, 2kg of tomato paste, 1kg of salt and 0.8kg of bouillon cubes and groundnut oil,” he added.
The DG assured that NEMA would effectively handle the distribution, in collaboration with the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, to ensure that it reached the beneficiaries.
“Our partnership with KSrelief dates back to 2018. Between 2018 and 2021, the Centre donated relief items (food baskets) to some IDPs in Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states”.
