In response to the arms attack in Baga, Borno State in which many lives and property were lost and which also led to displacement of the community, the National Emergency Management Agency has deployed a team of its officers and stakeholders to provide medical and relief assistance to the affected people in the area.
The Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, said the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, had directed the Agency to urgently provide immediate succor to the people.
Sani-Sidi said the NEMA team, led by its Director of Search and Rescue, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, has been dispatched to Baga with necessary medical assistance as well as food items to cater for the displaced persons that are now taking refuge in various camps.
The team has already arrived Borno and is working together with the Borno State Government.
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