Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno state has distributed food and non food items to residents and internally displaced persons of Dikwa town and surrounding villages in IDPs Camps in Dikwa town of Dikwa LGA of the Wednesday.
The governor also urged the IDPs to continue to be resilient and prayerful for peace to permanently return fully to the state while assuring them that his government will continue to support them and provide them all the basic needs of livelihood but they have to be careful and watchful not to allow miscreants and unscrupulous elements in their midst trouble them.
“We are here to support and assist you with some food and non food items because we have not been here for about a year today. That is why due to the drought and hot weather we will give household 25 kg of rice and maize.
“And I will give each of your wives (women) one wrapper and N5000 cash. While you prepare for relocation back to your communities. It is better you return to your ancestral homes to continue with your normal life and occupation of farming than continue to live in IDPs Camps receiving support from NGOs,” Zulum said.
The governor further said that his government has already concluded arrangements to resettle all those IDPs from the surrounding villages of Dikwa town to return to their ancestral homes to settle down and face their farming occupation, promising to support and provide them with farming implements, fertilizers and seeds among others
As the governor promised to provide them with fertilizers, seeds and other farming implements to boost their farming occupation, he appealed to them to be very prayerful, watchful and report any suspicious elements around their settlements,” as government is assiduously working towards providing them with all the necessary critical infrastructures in their communities such as schools, healtjcar delivery services , sources of hygienic water supply and security among other.”
The governor further advised both the residents and IDPs from the surrounding villages to ensure that they obtain their voters card as general election is fast approaching and at the corner to enable them exercise their franchise as citizens of Borno state, noting that Borno state is a populated state so they should come out and vote.
He disclosed to them that the male IDPs will get one bag of 25 kg of rice and maize each while all the female IDPs will get a wrapper and N5000 per household.
