The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has announced that it has commenced the disbursement of ₦100,000 and Dignity Packs to each of the Nigerian returnees from Sudan following their distressed arrival.
Africa Today News, New York can confirm that the money and the Dignity Packs were handed out to the evacuees upon arrival at the airport in Abuja on Friday.
All the evacuees, irrespective of the number are billed to receive the sum of N100,000 and Dignity Packs each, by the Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), once they step into the country according to the foundation.
Speaking in Abuja soon after the arrival of the returnees, a representative of the foundation, Maryam Buhari-Shehu, said the Board of Trustees of the Foundation has resolved to be fully involved in the evacuation and resettling of thousands of Nigerians that were stranded in Sudan.
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She said a total of 362 returnees including children were registered by the ADF for the exercise on the first day. Three hundred and fifty people received the support.
According to her, the intervention was in collaboration with the federal government through its agency, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and Air Peace to provide succor to the returnees.
Mrs. Buhari-Shehu, who was representing the Managing Director of the ADF, Zouera Youssoufou, noted that ADF will continue to support the government in its humanitarian effort.
Similarly, the Nigerian evacuees who arrived the country from Sudan on Thursday received the sum of ₦100,000 each and aboutN25,000 worth of recharge cards and 1.5 Gigabytes of data upon their return to the country.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq, revealed this at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Thursday morning.
Farouq stated that the cash and other gifts given to the returnees were done to make them comfortable as they return to the country.