By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, donated 372.5 metric tons of grains to the Kaduna State Government for onward distribution to vulnerable persons in the state.
Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General of the agency made this known while handing over the relief items to the Kaduna state Government in Kaduna.
He said the grains were part of the 12,000 metric tonnes of assorted grains from the National Strategic Reserve Stock approved by President Muhammadu Buhari to aid the vulnerable persons in the state.
Represented by Alhassan Nuhu, director, relief and rehabilitation of the agency, explained that the grains were to be distributed to all states of the federation to give succour to the most vulnerable groups of persons.
” Globally the world is faced by an economic meltdown with also disasters impacting on people making vulnerability compounding on people.”
He said that the grains allocated for Kaduna were; 210 metric tonnes of maize or 7 trucks of 50kg, 100 metric tonnes of sorghum or 3.3 trucks of 50kg and 62.5 metric tonnes of millet or 2 trucks of 50kg.
Ahmed said that the grains would be distributed to the beneficiaries through the State Emergency Management Agency.
He said the grains were to cushion the effects of banditry, economic downturn and pre-harvest food shortage that had increased the vulnerability of a segment of the populace in the recent past.
In his response, Muhammad Mukaddas, Executive Secretary, Kaduna state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), commended the Federal Government for its sustained responses to the plight of the people of the state.
He assured that the agency would collaborate with its relevant stakeholders to ensure that the items reach the intended beneficiaries across the state immediately.
