Members of the Borno State Caucus in the National Assembly have cried to the Federal Government and international donor agencies for help over deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the state.
They said the liberation of the Northeast from Boko Haram insurgents have resulted in starvation, as the state government cannot shoulder the responsibility of catering for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on behalf of other lawmakers, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, noted that over 100, 000 people have lost their lives, as a result of the crisis.

They also called for a review of the proposed 2017 budgetary allocation of N45b to the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative (PCNI) to N100b, describing the current proposal as inadequate to cater for the humanitarian challenges in the region.
“In the 2016 Appropriation Act, only N12b was allocated to PINE to address the humanitarian crisis in the Northeast, out of which only 75 percent was released. This is less than 10 percent of the $449m contributed by international donor countries and agencies.

“In the 2017 Budget proposal under consideration by NASS, only N45b is allocated to PCNI. This is grossly inadequate to address the emergency humanitarian crisis we are faced with, compared to the $1.0b, which is equivalent to over N305b that the international donor countries and agencies are trying to raise,” they said.
The lawmakers also expressed worry over what they called the near absence of relevant government agencies in the affected areas, compared with the number of foreign NGOs or groups rendering support services for the IDPs.

The lawmakers, therefore, advocated a nine-point demands needed to save more lives and assist people in Northeast as adopted by NGOs operating in the affected areas, including, the prioritisation of the protection of civilians, an urgent scale up of the food and nutrition response and increased access to more, better and safe quality education.

Source: https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/264914/borno-federal-lawmakers-cry-shortage-food-northeast

They allowed those politicians to toy with their lives, let them suffer...... only pity the innocent kids ou there

Don't cry too much Mr lawmaker. Help is on the way.
I heard some bags of rice and kegs of vegetable oil were recently seized from somewhere.

lol

..Come to think of it they were unable to condemn the activities of boko haram at its inception cuz they thought they were punishing Jonathan even though I'm not a supporter of Gej who said stealing is not corruption


Now the bird has come home to roast


if they had been told that their action would eventually boomerang they wouldn't have believed it , I can only pity someone who deserves pity
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Mad thieves!

It's seem without the assistance of International community Nigeria going to experience famine. States and federal Government seem to be budgeting too little. Anyway With all these eyes on ball it shouldn't go too bad.

The law makers comments is interesting about lives lost and lack of funds for IDP. 100k lives lost, 1.5 displaced and 1 million lives at risk of famine.

I thought northerners are good in farming

Annie939:
I thought northerners are good in farming

I heard it's easier when nobody shooting at you, stealing living stock and burning down crops.