IDPs in Dikwa
Credit: Vanguardngr
The permanent
secretary, Mr Nuvalga Dan-Habu disclosed this while conducting journalists round
the venue where the relief materials
were stored for self keeping in Jalingo Taraba state capital.
The Presidential
relief materials sent to Taraba state for IDPs have recently generated controversy
and war of wards between the minister for women and social development Sen.
Aisha Arhasan and Taraba state government when the permanent secretary refused
to release the materials to the minister for distribution. Aisha was in the
state to flag off the distribution of the materials to IDPs while on her five
days official visit in the state, the state government refused to release
materials to her, she also accused the state government of inflicting
unnecessary hardship on the IDPs by holding on the materials.
Nuvalga stated
that few weeks ago he received a phone call from the National Emergency
Management Agency NEMA North East zonal office Gombe, he was informed 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 should take the stock of the materials for self keeping
for letter distribution to the IDPs. Nuvalga further disclosed that a truck of
the relieve materials loaded six hundred (600) bags of Maize in each.
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. He
said when the nineteen trucks arrived Jalingo he called the zonal office and
informed them of the details of the stuck the Agency received in Jalingo.
While stating up till the time of briefing journalist the remaining truck was yet to arrived. “Instead of receiving 12,000 bags of Maize as we were informed by NEMA, only 11,400 reached us, a truck loaded 600 bags and it was only 19 trucks that reached to us although I informed NEMA promptly on the development” When asked why the State refused to release the materials to the minister for distribution, the permanent secretary said Sen. Aisha did not follow the Normal procedures on how to get the materials been released to her for distribution to the IDPs.
“When I was contacted that materials were on the way, I briefed my
boss who is the governor of Taraba state, who am answerable to, when the
minister came into the state she called me, directing me to release the
materials to her for onward distribution to IDPs then I told her that NEMA did
not direct me to handover the materials to her and she should contact my boss
to smoothen the process but she refused”
(VANGUARDNGR)
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