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Since inception in 1999,
NEMA has
been active in providing timely relief
assistance to victims both at national and international levels.
The Agency has provided relief
materials to disaster victims from various states across the country
in response to various emergencies within the country. The advent
of democracy in 1999 brought about a renewed agitation for human
rights and equity. The period also witnessed a great of number
of ethno/communal
crisis. The result is that there has been a
tremendous pressure for assistance from the Federal Government
to disaster victims through NEMA's broad
based intervention activities.
The Agency, has also undertaken the resettlement of the
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). An estimated 2,928
returnees were kept in camp for three days, fed, and were given
relief materials and medical attention and assisted with
transport fares to return to their various states. There is also
an on-going evacuation of about 17,000 Nigerians that fled Mambilla Plateau and adjourning areas due to communal clashes to
seek refuge in Cameroon. Now that there is peace in the area,
they are being assisted to go back to their states of origin.
AT
INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
On
the foreign scene, the Agency has intervened in the evacuation
and rehabilitation of returnees from foreign countries. These
include countries like Cote D'lvoire, Liberia, Sudan, Morocco
and
Thailand. The Agency has also assisted
countries that have suffered from Disasters like earthquake and
also famine as a result of war like; Algeria, Botswana,
Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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