Daily Independent (Lagos)
Alex Emeje
27 June 2009
Abuja — National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has disclosed that it registered about 3,500 displaced people from Warri just as it distributed materials worth N30 million to alleviate their sufferings.
This followed the unfortunate crisis between the Joint Task Force (JTF) and Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area, which led to the displacement of the residents.
Director General of NEMA, Mohammed Audu-Bida, made this known at a public hearing of an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives on the Niger Delta Crisis. He explained that immediately after NEMA set up the Internally Displaced People Camp (IDPC) few international non-governmental orgasnisations (NGOs) visited the camp to commiserate with the victims, but no multinational firm provided relief materials to the victims.
In a statement, Audu-Bida stated that delegations to the camp included Doctors Without Borders, International Committee of Red Cross, Rural African Health Initiative (RAHI), Ambassadors, Chaplain Corps and various media organisations both local and international.
He added that NEMA in collaboration with State Rehabilitation Committee delivered materials to the victims trapped in various communities, adding that the camp stabilised with total registration of about 3,500 Internally Displaced People (IDP) before the state committee directed the relocation of the camp to General Hospital Ogbe-Ijoh, which was underutilised.
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