NAN-H-124
Donation
By Ahmed Ubandoma
Benisheikh (Borno State), Oct. 27, 2016 (NAN) The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has launched the distribution of nutritious food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno.
Mrs Buhari performed the launching on Thursday in company of the wife of the Borno Governor,
Mrs Nana Kashim Shatima.
She said that the items were part of donations gathered from well-meaning Nigerians through her NGO, “The GET INVOLVED” initiative which was launched in August in Abuja.
She explained that the items were donated by people from the South, East and West, as well as
the Northern part of the country to ease the sufferings of victims of insurgency.
She urged the wife of the Borno governor and other stakeholders in the state to monitor the distribution of the materials, stressing that “the items you are seeing today were donated by well-meaning Nigerians.
“They donated the items so as to ease your sufferings and act as cushion to the trauma you are going through. They send their regards to the entire people of Borno State.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mrs Buhari distributed food items and other household utensils to more than 350 households in Benisheikh, headquarters of Kaga Local Government area of Borno.
Items distributed include bags of rice, sugar, solar lamp, wrappers, buckets, mosquitoes nets,
bags of Semovita, palm oil among others.
Mrs Buhari was accompanied by former Deputy Governor of Plateau, Mrs Pauline Tallen, wife of
Chief of Air Staff, Mrs Hafsat Sadiq Abubakar and wife of Inspector General of Police Mrs Asma’u
Ibrahim Idris.
The wife of the Borno governor, Mrs Shettima, thanked Mrs Buhari for identifying with the
people of Borno since the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
She said that the people of the state were indebted to the wife of the president because she was
always supportive to their plight and the plight of victims of insurgency.
She congratulated the wife of the President for supporting the establishment of the North East Development Commission which the Bill was before the Senate.
The Borno Governor, Kashim Shatima, commended the efforts of Mrs Buhari to the plight of
Internally Displaced Persons in Borno
Shettima said the president’s wife had shown the world that she was a true daughter of the
North East by supporting the establishment of the North East Development Commission.
The UBE Junior Secondary School in Benisheikh, which was the venue of the relief materials distribution was then named as Aisha Muhammadu Buhari Junior Secondary School, Benisheikh
by the Chairman of Kaga Local Government.
The event featured cultural dance by Fulani group. (NAN)
AMU/HA
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(Edited by Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu)