Acting President Osinbajo speaks reveals next move over Boko Haram attacks in north-east

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– Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was in Maiduguri, Borno state hours after Boko Haram launched a ferocious attack on the city

– Professor Osinbajo also launched a new strategy to get materials and other supplies to Internally Displaced Persons in the north-east

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has unveiled a new plan for the distribution of relief materials to victims of terrorism after Boko Haram launched an unexpected attack on Maiduguri, Borno state in the night of June 7.

Osinbajo, who visited Maiduguri on Wednesday, June 8, said the new strategy would be defer from the old method of delivering materials to camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

According to him, under the new plan, officials will now deliver food items to the IDPs at their doorsteps in exchange for a pre-issued voucher.

Acting President Osinbajo was in Maiduguri after an attack on the city by Boko Haram

A statement by the office of the acting president noted that while unfolding this new strategy, Osinbajo disclosed that the plan was part of the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari to catering for IDPs in the north-east region of the country.

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“We are incorporating the voucher system which do not only make the process of relief distribution transparent, it will improve our own data collection and our national capacity to plan for what will be a quarterly exercise.

“As we restore and maintain security in the region, we must not lose sight of the need to provide social service, food, education, healthcare, shelter as well as resettlement and livelihood support.

“Today, the federal government flags off what will be a

quarterly grain distribution programme for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and by this, we are saying to our brothers and sisters in the north-east that our country does not take their burdens lightly and we are not blind to their difficulties.

“I am particularly pleased to say that the grains that we’ll be distributing, which comprise of sorghum, maize, soya beans, and Rice, are produced locally; they are produced here in Nigeria by our own farmers.

“This has always been the vision of Mr President for our country, to grow what we eat, and to eat what we grow and to use what we make.

“These grains have travelled from various locations across the country, from as far afield as Ibadan, and as close as Gombe; escorted and protected by the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Military and in some cases will be airlifted by the Nigeria Air Force,” he said in the statement obtained by ZENITHBLOG.com.

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Osinbajo added that the federal government would work closely with states to provide other assistance including health services to the IDPs.

He commended the partnership support from international partners such as the United Nations, World Food Programme, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the military, the police, other security agencies and state governments in the region.

Watch how the Nigeria Air Force launched an attack on a Boko Haram base recently:

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