Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno says he resisted shedding tears while watching displaced persons queuing for distribution of relief materials.
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state distributing food and non-food items to 19,000 displaced households on Tuesday at Gajiram, headquarters of Nganzai Local Government Areas of the state. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of Mr. Zulum]says he resisted shedding tears while watching displaced persons queuing for distribution of relief materials.
“We cannot continue to depend on food aid to survive, with the kind of resources we inject in providing relief items, you can only imagine the development projects we would have executed.” The News Agency of Nigeria reports that about 11,300 house wives received clothing materials and N5,000 each, while 7,800 men received one bag of rice and maize as well as three litres of cooking oil each.
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