Some officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were
allegedly caught re-bagging rice donated by the government and other
donors for the feeding of Internally Displaced Persons. When the story
broke, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima ordered an investigation
into the theft in order to deal with those responsible. Editorials and
reports were done on this in some Media outlets and the agency has now
responded via a statement titled 'Re-bagging of IDPS rice'. It reads,
Our attention has been drawn to the Vanguard newspaper editorial
publication on Monday 27th June 2016 and the Nation newspaper
publication of today 29th June 2016 where the National Emergency Management Agency is alleged to have rebagged rice meant for IDPs.
To set the record straight, there was no time our officials rebagged any
IDPs rice not to say that they were accused or captured doing so. The
video that is being circulated on the social media with such allegation
was neither taken at any of our warehouse nor feature our official.
Given the weight of the allegation which was directed at the Borno State
Emergency Management Agency, the Governor has since directed security
agencies to investigate the incidence. Report of the investigation is
being awaited.
It's equally important to inform you that NEMA as Federal Goverment's
agency has an MoU with state government where it supplies food and non
food items and hands it over to state in full glare of media while the
state government would provide condiments for feeding of IDPs in the
state. Therefore, there is no way the agency's officials could have gone
back to state government's store and start rebagging IDPs rice as
alleged.
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