Fire Guts SEMA Office, Destroys Relief Materials

Fire Guts SEMA Office, Destroys Relief Materials

The stockroom of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has been gutted by flame as some claimed gangsters endeavored to truck away nourishment and non-sustenance materials implied for Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, in the state.

Mr. Princewill Ayim, Director General of SEMA, who affirmed the advancement said the flame flare-up happened around 9:00 p.m on Saturday.

Ayim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the things worth a large number of Naira were given by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to lighten the predicament of the IDPs in the state.

He said the organization had effectively appropriated more significant part of the things to the IDPs in Bakassi and had educated the pioneers regarding the camps in Ogoja and Biase Local Governments Areas that the office was accompanying help materials for them.

He clarified that after a careful examination, it was uncovered that the criminal broke into the distribution center through one of the cools to access the materials.

He included that it was anything but an electrical shortcoming as the stockroom had been without power for more than six years.

“Our examination uncovered that the punks broke into one of the cool to enter the stockroom. They set up the wood holding the forced air system ablaze to permit them in yet in the end, the flame overpowered them and raised to the entire distribution center.

“You can see the demolition that radiated from the flame flare-up. We have lost sleeping pads, packs of rice, beans, groundnut and palm oil, containers of noodles and different things including the top of the distribution center.

“We express gratitude toward God for the 112 sans toll crisis line that the National Communications Commission had set up in the state as a team with SEMA. When one of our staff saw the flame episode, he quickly called the line, and the Fire Service reacted speedily.

“We wish to interest the legislature and corporate associations to help with structure a standard and well-verified distribution center for the capacity of alleviation materials for the IDPs,” he said.