NEDC Vows Aid for Gwoza Bombing Victims to Receive Support
The Managing Director of the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali, has pledged to support over 80 victims of the multiple suicide bombings in Gwoza town of Borno state.
The Saturday multiple attacks at a wedding and burial ceremonies; claimed the lives of 32 residents with the injure of 49 others.
Alkali made the pledges, yesterday (Wednesday), while sympathizing with some of the hospitalized victims at the Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri.
While condemning the Boko Haram attacks, the NEDC boss said: “Plans are underway to provide support to the survivors of the bomb blasts that killed over 30 people.
“We are talking to the State government and stakeholders on how we can find a comprehensive way of responding by providing the needed succour and other assistance to the people.”
He noted that attention must be given to the survivors; particularly the ones, who sustained fractures and other injuries.
On the hospitalized survivors, he said: “Most of them are responding to various treatments in the hospital.”
Alkali, however, described the situations of patients as pathetic, including the rigours of evacuating the victims from Gwoza and Pulka to the Maiduguri hospital for treatments.
Continuing; he added: “We are also talking to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to provide other needs of the Boko Haram victims.”
He noted that the comprehensive support plan for the survivors is still under wraps and will soon be made known to public.
“We won’t disclose our plans now,” he said, as the commission and state government are on top of the situation.
