ASUU Donates Relief Materials to Sokoto IDPs

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has donated food and non-food items to the Internally Displaced Persons in Sokoto State.

Making the donations yesterday at the Kasuwa Daji IDP camp in Sokoto, the National President of ASSU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said the gesture was to show kindness to the Sokoto IDPs.

Osodeke, who was represented by the Chairman of ASUU Usman DanFodio University, Sokoto, Dr. Nurudeen Almustapha, said that the donation was a national programme embarked upon by the union, noting that the same programme was going on simultaneously across the country.

“This is part of the programme initiated by our union to help the needy, this time around it is for Northwest and North-central, we are done with North central while we started that of North-west in Katsina.

“We have done it in Zamfara and Kebbi States and now we are in Sokoto today as part of our visit to the North-west  where we are flagging off the distribution of relief materials for 250 family  members of the IDPs.

“The union earmarked the sum of N50 million for this exercise in the North-central and North-west. Other zones have received their own.

“The union is looking at it as part of our corporate social responsibilities to help the needy. That is why we tax ourselves minimum of 2,000 naira for six months which we gathered together in order to do this”

The chairman also used the opportunity to call on the government at all levels to ensure they provide  enough security to enabled those in the IDPs camp across the country to go back home.

He further said that ASUU has been given intellectual advice to the federal government on how to tackle insecurity in the country and thereby allow everyone living in the camp to go back to their homes.

Earlier in his address, the Special Adviser to the Sokoto State Governor on State Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), Mr. Nasiru Garba Kalambina, assured that the current administration is doing everything within its power to ensure those in the camp to return home.

He further said the state government through SEMA would soon extend palliatives to the people living in the IDPs camp.

Some of the beneficiaries who spoke with our correspondent commended ASUU for the kind gesture while calling on all other group or individual in the society to extend their hand of friendship to those living in the camp.