FARMER-HERDER CLASHES: FCTA PARTNERS NOA TO Sensitized residents
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) the administration is to partner with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in a community-based sensitization and enlightenment campaign aimed at forestalling the deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herders, currently rocking some parts of the country.
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello made this known in Abuja over the weekend in a parley with the Director-General, NOA, when the latter paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
Towards the success of this initiative, the FCT Administration, the Minister pledged would provide the necessary financial, logistics and manpower support.
Bello said it had become increasingly necessary for government to take pre-emptive steps to ensure that the city remains very peaceful and safe in the face of the influx of people with different characters.
FCT Minister assured NOA Director, “We are going to give you full support on this programme. We are going to make available our facilities and establish a small group in the FCT Administration that is going to liaise with you on this. We will also give you monetary support.”
He directed the Secretaries of Social Development, Agriculture, Area Council and the Head of the FCTA Information and Communication Department to liaise with the NOA to map out the strategies for peaceful coexistence, patriotism and national unity among residents of the Territory.
By Ide Jude Abuja
