Katsina (SEMA) Donates Relief Materials To 709 IDPs

Katsina state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has screened no fewer than seven hundred and nine internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have been displaced following insurgency in some parts of the country but are currently residing at the state capital.

Executive Secretary of SEMA, Aminu Waziri, told newsmen that the IDPs comprised of 89 households “all of whom before now, were being supported by Daawah Foundation”, an NGO.
Waziri said the Daawah Foundation had been providing support to the IDPs but SEMA, acting on the directive of the state governor, Aminu Bello Masari, conducted screening to ascertain their number preparatory to formal distribution of relief materials to them.
“Daawah told us that they are about 500 but after the screening, we found out over seven hundred of them, most of whom have harrowing tales to tell about the disasters that rendered them IDPs” Waziri said.
He noted that Governor Masari has graciously approved the sum of N5 Million which had been used to procured relief materials for onward distribution to the IDPs stressing “formal distribution of the relief materials is scheduled for tomorrow”.