Victims of the Lunguda and Waja crisis in Guyuk and Lamurde Local Government Areas of Adamawa state over the weekend received relief materials from the Catholic Diocese of Yola in collaboration with the Mennonite Central Committee to cushion their hardship.
Lunguda and Waja of the Dumna district of Guyuk local government were recently engulfed in a conflict that led to the destruction of lives and properties.
Each package contained over fifteen items of food and non-food items.
Speaking during the distribution in Boshikiri and Lafiya, Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza sue for peace maintained that no community will prosper in isolation.
The relief materials are largesse from the Mennonite Central Committee in partnership with the Justice Development and Peace Commission of Catholic Diocese of Yola.
“You People of Boshikiri and Lafiya know the value of peace, therefore shun any form of dispute that will lead to the destruction of lives and properties”. He said
Mamza said he is coordinating the distribution in Boshikiri and Lafiya through the help of the Emergency Response Team and stressed the need for people to coexist peacefully, saying no society can develop in isolation.
Also Speaking, the program, planning, and Evaluation Coordinator of the Mennonite Central Committee Mr. Kitshiwe Williams said people should learn to live together and coexist for the overall development of the state and the country as a whole.
Mediating between worrying factions in conflict and providing succor is the mandate and mission of the Mennonite Central committee hence the provision of today’s relief materials. He said.
Some of the beneficiaries had expressed gratitude to the donors to pray for peace to reign in their communities.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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