Govs Fintiri and Yahaya Donate N50 Million Naira To Support IDPs of Lunguda/Waja Communal Clash

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa and his counterpart, Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe, Wednesday, 19th May 2021 donated Fifty Million Naira (N50m) to support the movement of the Internally Displaced Person, IDPs, of the recent Lunguda/Waja communal clash to go back to their respective ancestral homes.

Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State disclosed this while reading out a Communiqué christened "The Numan Accord" signed by the two governors and Kwandi Nungurya as well as Bala Waja after a peace meeting that held at Government Lodge, Numan.

He said the meeting agreed "that the two communities cannot be separated having lived and intermarried for centuries and all internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps should be closed within the next one week and people returned back to their homes."

"All militia and hunter groups are hereby disbanded and their activities proscribed in both communities of the two states and that leaders and elders in both communities of both states shall prevail on their youths and restrain them from causing any distraction and participating in violence".


"That religious leader should mount and sustain the campaign for peace in both communities which shall also be taken up by youth groups from both communities in the two states, the communiqué said".

"The Governments have also resolved that a committee for the rebirth of peace and sustaining it among Lunguda and Waja in both States be raised to comprise the Deputy Governors as Co-Chairmen and other Stakeholders and Traditional Rulers as Members."









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