NIMASA donates relief materials to Anambra flood victims

The Nigeria Maritime Administrative and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has donated relief materials worth millions of naira to the Anambra state government for distribution to communities affected by the 2018 flood in the state.

Director-General of the agency, Dr. Dagogo Peterside, presented the materials to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) at Agu-Awka on Friday.
The relief items include bags of rice, garri, maize, noodles, disinfectants, soap, diapers, grinders and sewing machines.

Peterside, who was represented by the Auditor-General of the agency, Victor Onuzulike, expressed the need for the Anambra state government to ensure the proper distribution of the donated items to the affected persons.

Executive Secretary of SEMA, Chief Paul Odenigbo, who received the materials on behalf of the state government, thanked NIMASA for showing genuine concern about the plight of flood victims in the state.

Odenigbo also thanked other organisations, including the Red Cross and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for making similar donations to the victims in the past.

He appealed to NIMASA to include Anambra state in its 2019 intervention programme in view of the prediction by the Nigeria Metrological Agency that the state might also experience flooding this year.