The Niger Government has donated cash and relief materials worth N26 million to victims of the Military\/Gbagyi clash that occurred in August 2015 in the state.<\/p>\n

Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, Director-General of the State\u2019s Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) made this known on Wednesday at Bosso Local Government secretariat while presenting the materials.<\/p>\n

28 persons died while 26 others sustained various degrees of injuries in Kpaidna, Kopan Bambe, Legbe-dagma and Lunku in Bosso Local Government Area during the incident.<\/p>\n

Inga attributed the delay in distributing the relief materials to the communities to the investigation on the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n

He decried the unfortunate incident, which allegedly claimed the lives of 16 civilians and 12 soldiers, adding that measures had been put in place to avoid future occurrence.<\/p>\n

Inga noted that the cash and relief materials were not compensation for lives that were lost, but government\u2019s intervention to bring succor to their relatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the incident, a committee was set up by Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger to investigate the actual cause of the clash between military and members of the communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are doing today is government\u2019s assistance to victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who lost their lives will be given assistance of N400,000 each, while victims who sustained injuries will be given N100,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims will also be given food items such as rice, maize, palm oil, ground nut oil and textile.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are giving the same assistance to the families of soldiers, who died in the clash,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Gov. Bello, advised the victims to remain calm and avoid taking laws into their hands for peace to reign in the state.<\/p>\n

He advised them to see the deaths as an act of God and always report all matters to the appropriate authority instead of taking law into your hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took us this long to give relief assistance to you because of the sensitivity of the incident, we had to do a thorough investigation to know the actual cause of the ugly incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bello, who was represented by Alhaji Mamman Musa, Commissioner for Water Resources, said that government was strengthening the traditional institutions to approach such issues using traditional method to avert communal clash.<\/p>\n

He explained that plans were underway to increase police outpost in volatile Local Government areas to manage all communal crises.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Alhaji Isah Wakili, Chairman of Bosso Local Government, commended the state government\u2019s intervention and appealed to the people to be law abiding in their domain.<\/p>\n

He said the council had encouraged series of interactions between herdsmen and farmers in the community to settle their differences and live in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Niger Government has donated cash and relief materials worth N26 million to victims of the Military\/Gbagyi clash that occurred in August 2015 in the state. Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, Director-General of the State\u2019s Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) made this known on Wednesday at Bosso Local Government secretariat while presenting the materials. 28 persons died while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1253,1254,1255,1256],"class_list":["post-41126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abubakar-bello","tag-alhaji-ibrahim-inga","tag-alhaji-isah-wakili","tag-alhaji-mamman-musa","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}