Over one thousand persons displaced during last year’s flood disaster from Awba-Ofemili in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, have received succour from the Federal Government through the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI).
The relief materials given to the people by the federal agency were one hundred and twenty-five-kilogram bags of rice, one hundred and twenty-two cartons of noodles, one hundred and twenty-two bags of Semo, twenty-one cartons of four-point-five litres of canned groundnut oil, seven bags of sachet salt, and twenty cartons of seasoning.
Handing over the items to the people of Awba-Ofemili, the Federal Commissioner, NCFRMI, Hajia Imaam Sulaiman-Ibrahim represented by the Principal Administration Officer in the agency, Mrs Gloria Ene, explained that the relief materials were to cushion the effects of the last year’s flood disaster on the people.
She asked the community leaders to ensure equitable distribution of the items and warned the people against selling them.
A Special Assistant to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Security Matters, Chief Ignatius Okafor, thanked the federal government for remembering the Awba-Ofemili people, lamenting that the flood really dealt with people in the community.
He said that though it has been a long the flood receded, people of Awba-Ofemili still need help from the government and good-spirited individuals as the effects of the disaster are still much on them.
According to him, they now buy everything from the market and have no seedlings and financial capacity to cultivate this farming season.
Some of the beneficiaries, including Miss Ebele Okafor from Akpana village Awba-Ofemili and her Umuchibu village counterpart, Mr David Anaeke both disabled, while appreciating the federal government for the kind gesture, narrated their ugly experiences during the flood outbreak last year.
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