The physically challenged community, religious groups, farmers and some other residents of Yola have benefitted from relief items donated by the North East Development Commission (NEDC).
The Adamawa Office of the commission presented the wide array of intervention items at the commission’s state store in the capital, Yola, urging equitable distribution by group leaders to intended beneficiaries.
Food and nonfood items that included 30,000 bags of rice; brocades and children’s wears and blankets were handed to cooperative groups, religious groups; and people with disability and other vulnerable persons.
Agricultural and produce processing machines including 40 ridgers and 30 2-discploughs; 35 walking tractors and 35 trailers, 30 planters & harvesters, and 16 rice mills as well as 2000 bags of fertilizer were handed to the Adamawa State Food Security Committee for distribution to farmers.
The acting Coordinator of the NEDC in Adamawa State, Fatima Bakari, who presented the materials to benefitting groups, also announced that in the commission’s latest interventions, it is desilting and evacuating municipal waste from drainages spanning 60,000 metres within the state.
She advised representatives of benefitting groups to follow suggested criteria in ensuring that the items get to those who need them most.
Reverend Zenald Zidon Love who represented NGOs and Christian community during the distribution flag off ceremony, said the food and nonfood items would be highly appreciated by beneficiaries at these difficult times.
Receiving the agricultural machines meant for farmers, the Chairman of Adamawa State Food Security Committee, Dishi Khobe, thanked the NEDC for donating the agricultural machines and fertilizer, and assured the commission that hey will be equitably distributed to farmers cooperatives that had already been identified for onward distribution to end users.
