The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has donated relief materials to 20,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno State.

Director-General Dakuku Peterside, who was represented by the Director of Internal Audit, Victor Onuzuruike, said the gesture was part of the NIMASA’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to assist victims of natural disasters in the country.

Items donated included rice, beans, sorghum, detergents, milk, noodles, sewing and grinding machines, and empowerment kits.

He said: “We are here as part of our corporate responsibility to distribute relief items to IDPs in the Lake Chad region, with Borno State also benefitting. We have interventions to touch many lives, not just in the localities where we exist, but other areas where we have human and natural disasters, and that is why we are here. We were here in 2018 and I believe we will still come back.”

Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Yabawa Kolo praised NIMASA for the gesture. He lamented that over 1.8 million persons have been displaced by the insurgency, and 1.6 million of them were currently taking refuge in various IDPs camps in the state.