The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has
donated relief materials to people affected by the 2018 Flood disaster
in Anambra State.
The Executive Secretary, Anambra State Emergency Management Agency,
Chief Paul Odenigbo received the donations on behalf of the State
Government in Awka.
David Okpokwasili reports that NIMASA, formerly the National Maritime Authority, is the regulatory
agency in-charge of shipping, maritime labour and coastal waters.
The Agency, as part of their corporate social responsibility, targets
making the interventions in twenty states with Anambra being the
eighteenth where they have made such interventions.
Some of the items include bags of salt, sugar, millet, beans, cowpeas,
bambara nuts, maize, gallons of vegetable and palm oil, , cartons of
instant noodles, water, toiletries, sewing machines, mattresses and
many others items.
Presenting the items, the Director-General, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku
Peterside said the aim of the donations is to help the State
Government take care of those who were displaced during the deluge.
Represented by the Director of Internal Audit in the Agency, Mr Victor
Onuzuruike, Dr Peterside expressed the hope that the relief materials
will help the families to fully recover from the effects of the devastation .
In his response, The Executive Secretary of State Emergency Management
Agency, Chief Odenigbo thanked NIMASA for its partnership noting that
the donations will go a long way in helping the State Government in
assisting those affected to rebuild their lives.
It would be recalled that about eighteen thousand persons were
displaced in the State during the last flood disaster.
Remember that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET had predicted
that thirty states of the Federation will be affected by Flood this
year, including Anambra where ten Local Government areas were
projected as highly probable areas.
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