FG donates relief materials to Enugu flood, fire victims

The Federal Government has donated relief materials to victims of disasters in Enugu State and expressed concern over alleged high level of negligence, poor and negative attitude of Nigerians towards ecological policies.

The government said these negative tendencies were some of the major causes of fire and flood disasters in the country.

Chairman, Presidential Committee on Flood and Fire Relief Materials and Distribution to Victims, Mr. John Owoicho, expressed these concerns in Enugu when he led members of the committee to inaugurate the 2015 flood and fire disaster relief materials donation to victims in the state.

He explained that despite the numerous challenges associated with the flood and fire disasters in the country, the federal government had re-affirmed its readiness to assist and rehabilitate the victims through the provision and distribution of relief items to them through their state governments.

Owoicho noted that the committee members were in Enugu to sympathise with the victims and make some items available for distribution to them, stressing that, as natural disasters were unavoidable phenomena, the federal government would not relent in its effort to bring the victims back to life, urging the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the items.

He stated that one of the primary assignments of the committee members was to ensure that the contractors handling the relief materials nationwide delivered them on scheduled to their various states, in line with the terms of reference of the committee and appreciated the cordial relationship existed between National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the state government.

Receiving the items on behalf of the Enugu State Government, the Executive Secretary, Enugu State Emergency Management Agency (ESEMA), Mr. Josephat Offor, commended federal government for the kind gesture which, he noted, would go a long way to put smiles on the faces of the victims, pledging that the items would be judiciously distributed to the appropriate beneficiaries following the earlier recorded data to that effect.

The materials included bags of rice, bags of beans, garri, zinc, towels, mosquito nets, buckets, blankets, cements, gallons of vegetable oil, red oil to mention but a few.