The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has sent relief materials worth millions of naira to the Anambra State government for flood victims.
The Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mohammadu Sani Sidi, who was in the state, on Wednesday, said that the body had taken sensitization campaigns to the flood prone areas like Ekwusigo, Ihiala, Idemili South, Awka North and other council areas.
He was accompanied on the trip by the NEMA Zonal Co-ordinator for South-West, Dr. Onimode A. Bandele and his South-East counterpart, James Major Eze.
Governor Willie Obiano, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, Daniel Ezeanwu, received the relief materials.
Some of the materials delivered in collaboration with the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were 1,200 bags of rice, 1,000 bags of beans, 200 bags of garri, 305 bags of sugar.
Others were 1,500 pieces of wax prints, 1,500 pieces of Guinea brocade, 850 pieces of mattresses, 600 bags of cement, 1,000 pieces of ceiling boards, 350 pieces of roofing sheets, and 500 pieces of plastic buckets among many others.
Credit: DailyTimes
