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After the looting in Gwagwa, the Federal Government (FG) has set a committee that includes the Chairman of Area Councils, FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Traditional Rulers, the Director of State Service (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),
Faith Base Organizations, National Union of Local Government Employees, Nigeria Red Cross Society, Women’s Associations, Youth Associations, Principal of Boarding Schools, Civil Society Organizations and the Media
This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Minister of State for FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, in a meeting with stakeholders in Abuja
This committee is termed a ‘strategic committee’ and has been given an ultimatum of two weeks to initiate FG directives of even distribution of grains to FCT residents
Confirming this, a statement by Mahmoud read, “Yesterday we received this letter from the Presidency through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and we all know that some few days ago we were at Gwagwa where our warehouses were attacked by some youths in that area and then all we have there has been packed including the roofing, the gates and everything, and machinery that we used to make some of the foods that we were keeping there.
“So along that way God Almighty has given us a solution, everybody knows how Mr. President Bola Tinubu has been going up and down to see how he will cushion the hardship in the country, especially the issue of food security. We have been having meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture to get a lot that we have to distribute to people.
“The honorable Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesome Wike, was addressed through this letter to call an important meeting with important stakeholders that were highlighted. They are here to see that we arrange some committees for transparency in the distribution of these palliatives that we are about to get, and then the preparation that we need to have before these items are given to FCT for distribution.
“This is the reason that we called for this meeting. When we received the letter it said that it had to be handled in two weeks, so the two weeks from the day we received the letter, and we received this letter on the 29th of February.”
