Senate allocates N10bn for IDPs relocation, resettlement

Internally Displaced Persons

The Senate has directed its Committee on Appropriation to allocate N10 billion from the Service Wide Vote for relocation and resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

Sequel to a five prayer motion moved on Tuesday by the Leader of the Senate Mohammed Ali-Ndume and co sponsored by seven other senators.

Mark laments Agatu Massacre

Fulani Herdsman 

 

Immediate past President of the Senate , Senator David Mark has decried the continued hostilities between Agatu community of Benue state and Fulani herdsmen of Nasarawa state that has claimed hundreds of lives and properties worth millions of naira destroyed.

Thousands of families have been displayed just as the hostilities continued unabated.

 As a palliative measure, Senator Mark donated relief materials worth millions of naira to the displaced persons in Aila, Aku, Okokolo, Odugbeho and other war ravaged communities in Agatu local government area of the state.