NEMA Distributes Relief Items To Abuja PWDs After Fire Incident

NEMA Distributes Relief Items To Abuja PWDs After Fire Incident 

The National Emergency Management Agency, on Monday, distributed relief items to residents with disabilities who were affected by a recent fire incident in a community on the outskirts of Abuja.

NEMA disclosed this in a statement posted on its official Facebook page on Monday.

The statement read, "Following a fire incident that ravaged a community in the outskirt of Abuja City Centre with many persons living with disabilities, the National Emergency Management Agency, today distributed relief items to the affected persons in providing them with succour. 

"The Director General of NEMA, Mrs Zubaida Umar, who flagged-off the relief distribution in Abuja affirmed the agency's commitment to prioritise the protection of right and welfare of vulnerable persons and those living with disabilities during emergency situations and response to disasters. 

"She said the relief were provided by NEMA following request by the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons With Disabilities for the agency to support them after the fire incident at Karmojiji that destroyed their homes, degraded their livelihoods and had subjected them to more hardship.