Yobe to provide relief to victims of Boko Haram attacks

The Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam

The Yobe State Government is to provide relief materials to insurgency and disaster victims in the state so as to ameliorate their sufferings.
In a special broadcast to the people of the state, the state governor Ibrahim Gaidam said apart from the provision of handsome relief packages to victims of either natural or man-made crisis, a resettlement relief shall be provided after stock taking by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)
The governor said government will equally embark on stock-taking of the recent losses of both lives and property with a view to providing relief and re-constructing all destroyed buildings or providing financial assistance for their re-construction.
He said government will from time to time provide essential items like grains and other food items to the general public at subsidized prices as well as continue with the programme of employment of graduates and HND holders.
Government he stressed will also continue to support the Special Empowerment Committee to address the unemployment problem of thousands who have graduated in tertiary institutions.
Mr Gaidam said the government will embark on several direct poverty- alleviation measures covering vulnerable groups and rural farmers in the next financial year.
While calling on the business communities to shun rumours and resume their normal business, the governor also appeal to traditional, religious and political leaders to embark on assurance and confidence building interactions with people in their domains.
To civil servants and other employed groups the governor charge them to realize that with the gradual restoration of normalcy, they are under duty to resume their work and urges those that have unnecessarily relocated elsewhere have to come back to duty as usual.
He appeals to the leadership of the Boko Haram to listen to the numerous calls coming from many well-meaning individuals and groups as well as the prayers and cries of the thousands of the direct victims and perhaps millions of the indirect victims of these conflicts the majority of whom are the common man to shelve their sword for peace to reign.
As for the common criminals who perpetrate atrocities and robbery under whatever cover, the governor said the restriction on socio-economic activities occasioned by this crisis should have demonstrated to them the futility of continuing with their atrocities before the long arm of law reaches to them.
The governor also calls for sincere repentance from sin sand misdeed through soul searching, and reflections and calls for patient and steadfast in faith and reposing full trust in the Almighty.