FOLLOWING last week’s airstrike that killed and wounded scores of people, including twenty aid workers from the Nigerian Red Cross Society, more than 25,000 people in Rann have received food during a three-day distribution by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that ended on Monday.
The recipients received rice, beans, oil, salt and corn soya blend in quantities that should last for five weeks and which were delivered from 12 trucks.
The distribution was carried out by the ICRC and community volunteers.
Mohammed Sheikh-Ali, who is ICRC economic security coordinator confirmed this and said that, “People in Rann were happy to receive food.”
According to him, “They have been isolated by rains and poor quality roads since June and running very low on food supplies.”
He went further to say that, “At the beginning of January, we laid sand bags on the road for our trucks to be able to cross. We got 12 trucks full of food to Rann last week on the day of the airstrike, which prevented us to distribute.
“As soon as medical evacuations were over, we organised the distribution with the help of the community.”