The Kano State Government said on Wednesday that it had received 1,080 indigenes of the state who were displaced by the recent crisis in Wukari, Taraba State.
Alhaji Ali Bashir, the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria shortly after receiving the refugees at Unguwa Uku in Kano State.
Bashir said the refugees, who arrived the state on Tuesday, were in dire need of shelter, food, clothing and drugs.
“There are 613 households among them, while the remaining 467 are women and children,” he said.
According to him, the refugees hail from 10 local government areas of the state.
Bashir added: “After screening them at Unguwa Uku quarters, we found that they are from 10 local government areas of the state.
“The local governments are: Fagge, Gaya, Garko, Gwale, Kura, Kumbotso, Kano Municipal, Tarauni, Sumaila and Wudil.”
The scribe said the agency would forward its report to the office of the Deputy Governor to enable the state government assist the refugees immediately.
He called on wealthy individuals in the state to also assist them in order to alleviate their sufferings as most of them had lost everything to the crisis.
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