The National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA) has distributed relief materials to at least 6000 households that were flood victims in four local government areas of Kogi state.
The beneficiaries were drawn from Ajaokuta, Ofu, Igala-Mela and Idah local government councils.
The NEMA Team Leader in charge of Emergency Operation Centre B, Mr Tope Ajayi told newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday gesture was a continuation of intervention in communities affected by the 2018 floods in the state.
According to him, the items distributed include food and non-food items, including rice, beans, corns, groundnut oil, Milo, milk, sugar, salt, detergents, mattresses, mats, tin tomatoes, clothes, blankets, roofing sheets among others.
He explained that the assistance was in line with the desire of the Federal Government to provide succour for flood victims across the country through the agency.
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Ajayi, who handed over the relief materials, expressed the sympathy of the Managing Director of NEMA, Mr Mustapha Maihaja, to the victims and advised them to see the disaster as an act of God.
He, however, said efforts were on to ensure that victims in all the local government areas affected by the flood disaster in the state are reached out to by NEMA.
The Kogi State Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Sanusi Yahaya, commended the Federal Government for coming to the aid of the victims who he said required the support of all to start life afresh.
The Commissioner who was represented by his Personal Assistant, Mr Musa Muhammed, confirmed that the NEMA gesture covered all flood victims in the four council areas.
He said that gesture complemented earlier assistances rendered to the victims by the state government and other donors.
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