Towards ending malnutrition of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has taken over their daily feeding at various resettlement camps and other satellite centres across Borno State.

Over 1.6 million IDPs will be benefiting from the daily feeding program by NEMA, North-East zonal office, Maiduguri, thereby ending malnutrition and other humanitarian related issues on IDP camps.

has taken over their daily feeding of 1.6 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at various resettlement camps and other satellite centres across Borno State with a view to addressing malnutrition and other related humanitarian issues.

According to the Vanguard, this was disclosed by the North East Coordinator of the agency, Mallam Mohammed Kanar, during the flag-off of the distribution/presentation of relief items to officials of State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, for onward delivery to IDPs in the state. Recently, officials of Medicine San Frontiers, known as Doctors without Borders, reported that there was acute malnutrition and food crisis at various camps in Borno State, leading to deaths.

Kanaar said, “The decision to resume 100% feeding of IDPs by NEMA is to complement effort of the state government and other humanitarian agencies. With sustained effort by the military in liberating many communities, more IDPs are now willing to go back to their communities to continue their normal lives.”

According to him, in recent past, NEMA was solely feeding the IDPs, but it stopped doing so in the last two to three months following coordinated effort by the federal and the state government and other international donor agencies in managing the crisis. He noted that with concerted efforts of the Federal Government towards the plight of IDPs and victims of insurgency, NEMA had been mandated to resume and take care of feeding of IDPs.