No fewer than 33,636 persons in Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States have benefited from assorted food items donated by the Saudi Arabian King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief).

This is contained in a statement by Zubaida Umar, director-general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Friday in Kaduna.

According to her, the Saudi Arabia-based KS Relief donated the food items to provide humanitarian aid and relief to those in need outside the kingdom’s borders.

She said 5,606 households, comprising 33,636 persons, had benefited from the gesture.

“The number of households that received the items in Kano was 2,056, with 1,750 households each in both Jigawa and Katsina States, respectively.

“The food items distributed were in baskets that consisted of 25 kg of rice, 25 kg of beans, 4 kg of masa vita flour, 2 litres of vegetable oil, 2 kg of tomato paste, 0.8 kg of seasoning cubes and 1 kg of salt.

“Beneficiaries of the food items were jointly enumerated by NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMA) of Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States,” she explained.

The director-general further revealed that at least 50 food baskets were also given to vulnerable persons in camps and host communities identified by an NGO in Maiduguri, Borno.

Ms Umar commended the agency’s staff for ensuring the equitable distribution of the food items to the beneficiaries in the affected states.  

(NAN)