Hope was yesterday rekindled for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Niger state when a Governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Mohammed Idris Malagi donated grains and other items worth forty five million naira.
Represented by the Coordinating Secretary, Malagi 2023 Gubernatorial Organization, Barrister Bala Marka, the Aspirant said that the food items include 1,750 bags of rice and maize as well as 50 king size oil of 25 litres.
He handed over the items to the Niger State Government who was represented by the Director General, Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Alhaji Ibrahim Inga for onward distribution to the Internal Displaced Persons to ameliorate their plight.
Similarly, while presenting the items also to the entire APC executives from ward to state level explained that the gesture was aimed at supporting the party members and to also cushion the effect of the current hardship being experienced by the IDPs in Niger state.
Giving the breakdown of the materials distributed, Marka disclosed that the IDPs got a total of 450 bags of rice, maize and millet of 150 each and 50 Geri cans of 25 litres of oil while the All Progressives Congress APC executives got a total of 100 bags for state, 30 bags for the zonal, 250 bags to local councils and 1,370 bags for wards in addition to N1 million for transportation.
In his remarks, the NSEMA Director General, Alhaji Ibrahim Inga appreciated the kind gesture from the aspirant noting that this is his second term of extending the humanitarian gesture to the IDPs in the state, assured of doing the needful of the distribution to the real affected people.
Also, the state APC Chairman, Haliru Zakari Jikantoro thanked the governorship aspirant for always supporting the party and its members as well as the IDPs saying that ‘ one good turn deserves another’, adding that Malagi had earlier donated vehicles and funds to the party in the state.
