NEMA distributes 226 trucks of fertilisers to Benue flood victims

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Thursday distributed fertiliser to twenty-three thousand flood and herdsmen victims in Benue state.

Head, NEMA team in Benue, Dr Martins Ejike, while speaking at the flag- off ceremony of distribution of fertilisers to beneficiaries, said the occasion marked the phase three of the emergency agricultural intervention programme for Benue flood and herdsmen victims.
 
Ejike said a total of two hundred and twenty six trucks are on ground for distribution to the beneficiaries.

He stated that for the past six months, the team have been in Benue state, where they registered and carried out distribution of other farm implements like knapsack sprayers, seedlings, grains under phase one and two of the programme.

Ejike assured the people that no item or fertiliser meant for Benue will find its way outside the state.

“All beneficiaries will get all the items that are meant for them under this programme.

“I urge all the beneficiaries to be orderly and not misuse or sell items given to them by the federal government through NEMA,” he added.

Governor Samuel Ortom who was represented at the occasion by his adviser on agro business, Mrs Joy Tarka, pleaded with the federal government to settle the internally displaced farmers who have been chased from their ancestral homes to return so that they will continue peacefully with their farming activities.