The immediate past President of the Senate , Senator David Mark on Friday, March 4, 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.
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.
Some of the materials distributed include are mattresses, bags of rice, blankets, cooking oil, cartons of noodles, large mats, Maggi cubes, and cooking salts among others.
John Ngbede, the Benue state Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) deputy governorship candidate in the 2015 election, in the company of some Agatu Chiefs and clan heads received the items and distributed the materials on behalf of Senator Mark at the Internally Displaced persons ( IDP) camps in Otukpo and Apa local government areas . http://www.bengist247.com/2016/03/mark-donates-relief-material-to-agatu.html?m=0
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