A truck load of relief materials sent to Taraba State for
distribution to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, by President Muhamadu
Buhari has been declared missing. The permanent secretary Taraba state Emergency Management
Agency (SEMA), Nuvalga Dan-Habi said the materials never arrived the supposed
destination.
Dan-Habu made this disclosure while conducting newsmen round
the venue where the relief materials were stored in Jalingo, Taraba state
capital. He recalled that just few weeks ago, he received a phone
call from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North East zonal
office Gombe, that twenty (20) trucks of relieve materials (Maize) were been
sent by President Muhamadu Buhari for IDPs in Taraba state and the materials
were on the way from Abuja to Taraba state.
He said the NEMA zonal office directed that the Taraba state
Emergency Agency took the stock of the materials before distribution to the
IDPs.
He stated that instead of the twenty trucks as directed and
informed by the Gombe zonal office of NEMA, only nineteen (19) trucks of the
materials arrived Jalingo.
“Instead of receiving 12,000 bags of Maize as we were
informed by NEMA, only 11,400 reached us; I informed NEMA promptly on the
development”.
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