Following the recent rampaging flooding across the country, the Centre for Africa Liberation and Socio-economic Rights (CALSER) has said the National
The centre, which made this known at a world press conference in Abuja today, said its Human Rights and Disaster Management team carried out an extensive analysis of responses and interventions to the natural disaster in the country.
In its assessment report, the Executive Director of CALSER, Dr Cecilia Ikechukwu, said NEMA has risen to the occasion with critical relief for Nigerians in distress. The centre said the interventionist agency donated over 400 trailer loads of relief materials to the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory to cushion the effect of the flooding.
“The National Emergency Management Agency swung into action to alleviate the suffering of victims of the flood. They distributed relief materials worth millions of naira to support persons affected across the different states. The items included the president’s special intervention involving the release of assorted grains from silos,” she said.“NEMA distributed relief materials, an equivalent of 400 trailer loads of grains to all states of the Federation and the FCT.
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