The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has supplied food items to Nigerian Embassy in Sudan to support stranded Nigerians who are waiting to be airlifted to the country from Port Sudan.
NEMA disclosed this in a statement by its Head of Press Unit, Manzo Ezekiel, on Thursday in Abuja, after it received another 123 stranded Nigerians from from the war-torn country.
The statement assured that efforts are underway to evacuate more Nigerians who are willing to return home, adding that the dispatched food items is to cushion the effect of food scarcity currently encountered by Nigerians stranded in Sudan.
“The food items, according to the Director General NEMA Mustapha Habib Ahmed is meant to cater for the Nigerian citizens while the evacuation underway is being strengthened. The items consist of 100 bags of 10 kg rice, 50 bags of 10kg beans, 10 cartons of seasoning, 50 cartons of spaghetti and 5 bags of iodized salt,” the statement said.
It also noted that items were airlifted on Thursday to Port Sudan by Tarco Aviation that brought 123 stranded Nigerians to Abuja and that the latest arrival has brought the total number of evacuated stranded Nigerians to 2,246 in 12 different flights.
It further stated that “It must be emphasized that the evacuation exercise is continuing with efforts being made to engage some Nigerian airlines to strengthen airlift of Nigerian citizens that are willing and have been profiled to be transported back home as a result of the unfortunate conflict in Sudan.”