By Ijeoma Wilfred
The United Nations has announced a donation of $6m fund in support of the Maiduguri flood victims in Borno State.
The Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall, made this known in a statement on Tuesday..
Fall said a joint mission comprising UN agencies and NGOs, alongside the Nigeria Red Cross Society, visited the main city of Maiduguri over the weekend.
According to him, the team met with people who had been impacted – many of them had already been displaced multiple times by conflict and insecurity in the area.
He said “We and our partners are providing them with hot meals, we are facilitating air drops of food in hard-to-reach areas cut off by flood waters, and we are also trucking in water.
“We are also providing water and sanitation hygiene services and water purification tablets to stem disease outbreaks.
“This is in addition to supplying hygiene and dignity kits to women and girls, as well as emergency health and shelter services.”
Fall said the staff of the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were also working closely with donors to secure additional funding for support.
