Conflict
By Muhammad Adam
Dirma (Adamawa), April 24, 2018 ( NAN) No fewer than 527 households affected by clashes between farmers and herdsmen in Ditera District of Adamawa are to benefit from relief materials being distributed by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, the NEMA Director General, represented by Mr Imam Abbani, the agency’s Coordinator-in-charge of Adamawa and Taraba, presented the items to the affected communities in Dirma village on Tuesday.
Maihaja said that the intervention was under the aegis of the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s North East rebuilding initiative.
” Today, we are presenting this humanitarian intervention materials to about 527 households in five communities affected by last February’s conflict between farmers and herdsmen.
” The materials are not meant to compensate for what was lost but to assist in bringing succour to the affected persons,” Maihaja said.
He gave an assurance that government’s efforts would bring a permanent end to the conflicts and halt further loss of lives and properties.
Receiving the items on behalf of the communities, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmadu, the District Head of Ditera, thanked the Federal Government for its intervention.
Ahmadu, who listed the affected communities as Simba, Shiure,Tinde,Fulani and Tiya, pledged that the items would reach those they were meant for.
Items presented included food stuff , building materials as well as household utensils. (NAN)
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(Edited by Kamal Tayo Oropo/Mufutau Ojo)