A statement by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, in Abuja said that the fund will help to deliver life-saving activities for vulnerable people, including malnourished women and children.
The statement reads: “The UK has announced that it will spend £15 million of emergency humanitarian funding to provide vital food and nutrition assistance for vulnerable people in North-East Nigerian states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. “The money will fund the United Nations Children’s Fund and World Food Programme to deliver life-saving activities to respond to crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity and malnutrition for vulnerable people, including malnourished women and children.
“This food assistance funding is part of the UK’s wider commitment to prioritise life-saving humanitarian aid to communities around the world who are most vulnerable due to the ongoing combination of crises.
I just hope it gets to the masses in SS, SW and SE too where people are hungry and dying. Fear this MBuhari regime. WeCantContinueLikeThis
People are dying too in the east, all these donations and grants going to the north is just a long term plan of milking the world and NGOs while the real people continue suffering.
A very good decision in the right direction. The imaging food crisis in the zone is quite alarming and needs urgent attention.