By Sani Gazas Chinade, Damaturu
The AHUAK Foundation of Damaturu Emirate In Collaboration with The North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Yobe State government distributed food and non-food items to vulnerable persons in Damaturu emirate.
Dr. Ali Ibrahim Abbas, the Yobe State Focal Person of NEDC said that the items where donated on the directives of Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni.
According to him the items would be benefited by 600 targeted beneficiaries through ASHUAK Foundation.
The Hotpen gathered that ASHUAK Foundation was founded by the Emir of Damaturu on 2016 to assist vulnerable and neediest in the community.
Focal person revealed that the items were 300 bags of rice, 300 cartons of macaroni each, 300 cartons of vegetable oil, 30 cartons of tomato paste.
Other items according to him were 50 bags of 50kg sugar, 600 pieces of mats and blankets each, 500 pieces of wrapper and 600 pieces of children’s wear.
In his remarks, the Emir of Damaturu, Alhaji Shehu Hashim El-Kanemi II, commended the magnanimity of NEDC and Yobe Governor for the gesture.
The Monarch who was also the founder of ASHUAK Foundation added that the gesture had impacted on the lives of many people not only Damaturu Emirates but the state at large.
The Emir appealed to the people of the State to continue to pray peace and bumper harvest for the state and the Country at large.