Mr Dangote said the gesture is part of the over one million 10kg bags of rice to be distributed to one million vulnerable people in the 774 LGAs.
The United Nations Children’s Fund has commended traditional rulers in northern Nigeria for their active roles in the fight against polio.
“This government will not allow anyone to sabotage this exercise,” he said.
He said that the development of a country was critically tied to the health of its people.
Three of the evacuees, who sustained injuries, were moved to the hospital.
A top bureaucrat in Bauchi state health ministry gave a lowdown of activities of the government in the past two years.
