NADMO dispatches relief items to Bunkrugu displaced persons

Tamale, May 28, GNA - The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in the Northern Region, on Thursday dispatched three vehicles loaded with quantities of relief items valued at thousands of Ghanaian cedis to the victims of the Bunkrugu/Yunyoo conflict.

The items which were received from the national office includes; 200 packets of roofing sheets, 30 packets of roofing nails, 3,000 pieces of poly mats, 200 pieces of plastic bowls, 200 plastic bu ckets, 100 cartons of soap and ten bales of men jeans trousers and shirts. Others are; ten bales of ladies dresses, ten bales of boy's 'T' shirts and trousers, ten bales of girl's skirts and men T' shirts, five bales of ladies blouses, 400 pieces of student's mattresses and 15 large size tents. The Northern Regional Coordinator of NADMO, Alhaji Mahama Abdulai Silimboma, told the GNA that the items were part of the government's consignment to the displaced people of Bunkrugu/Yoyoo district of the Northern region as a result of the conflicts in the area. He said more support from the government and other development organizations are also expected to be added. Alhaji Silimboma urged the displaced people who had cross the boarder to Northern Togo to return to Bunkrugu, adding that, the people of the area must also understand that it is only through peace that there can be progress.

He appealed for more support from development organizations and donor agencies, to come to the aid of the people to complement government's efforts.

The people of Kumbatiac and Gbankoni and other communities of the Bunkrugu/Yunyoo had for sometime being engaged in communal and chieftaincy clashes, resulting in loss of lives and the burning down of several houses. The latest of such incidents has made some of the people in the area to flee to the nearby Togolese towns for safety. This has however sparked international media reportage that 35,000 Ghanaian refugees had fled to Northern Togo, an accession the government of Ghana had refuted.