IDPs attack ActionAid Officials
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we are not disturbed we always expect this kind of thing atakpu said1 by aminu ahmed garko1 a witness who pleaded anonymity said though none of the officials was injured a hillux van with registration number abuja bd826kwl belonging to actionaid had its windscreen smashed1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that there are about 10000 families in six idps camps in niger1 a total of 2160 households will benefit from the assistance out of which 1850 will receive material supports and 310 household in hard-to-reach communities will get n30 000 each from the actionaid1 the idps and camps arose as a result of the last floods which sacked the people from their ancestral homes1 mr anicetus atakpu programme manager told newsmen in minna that the mob was not unconnected with the trauma at the idps are going through1 aggrieved youths at internally displaced persons idps camp in muye lapai local government area of niger on sunday attacked officials of actionaid nigeria in the community after distributing relief materials to recent flood victims there1 the irate youths in idps were disappointed that only women were selected to be given relief materials by the actionaid whereas all of them were affected by the flood1 the youths expressed their disappointment at the beginning of the distribution of the relief materials but we told them the segment of the intervention was primarily for women1 they waited for us to finish the exercise and as we were leaving they started throwing stones and other objects at us1 some of us were hit but the real damage was to the windscreen of the vehicles in which we traveled to the idp camp we had to run for our lives he said1 he however assured the youths at the camp that the organisation would very soon implement another programme for them saying that the proposed scheme would target how they would be gainfully employed1 atakpu pleaded with the federal and state governments to improve the standard of infrastructure especially roads in the rural areas of the state because they served as hindrance in the discharge of their assignments1 nan reports that actionaid nigeria has distributed rice semovita and blanket worth n18 million to flood survivors in four idp camps in the state. nan1