ASUU Donates Relief Items To Benue IDPs
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has donated food and non-food items to the Internally Displaced Persons in Benue State.
Making the donations at the Abagana IDP camp in Makurdi, on Tuesday, the National President of the union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said they were in the state to show kindness to the Benue IDPs.
The president who was represented by the National Resource Person, Professor Ralpy Ofokwu said the donation was a national programme embarked upon by the union, noting that the same programme was going on simultaneously across the country.
The President said, “The purpose of our visit today is to show the kindness of ASUU, the kindness that ASUU has been fighting for the upliftment of the masses.
“One of it is what we are doing throughout the country. As we are here in Abagana camp, ASUU is also in Niger, Gombe, and other places, giving this to those who are marginalised, especially at this time of excruciating poverty, time our people are suffering from fuel subsidy removal and a time when people at the camp have nothing to eat.
“That is why we have come with a total number of 1,246 bags of assorted food items including rice, beans, groundnut oil and other ingredients. We have also brought cartons of sanitary towels for the use of women in the camp,” he said.
While appreciating the state government for its guidance and care for the IDPs, Professor Osodeke called on the Federal Government to secure communities in the state and across the country to enable the displaced persons to return to their homes.
