By; JULIANA KATUNG, Kaduna
The Kaduna State Metro of Ladies of St. Mulumba Catholic Church has on Thursday, 24, July, 2019 donated building materials and fertilizer worth N500,000 to the victims of crisis at the Maraba Kajuru, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
These items include, 11 bundles of roofing sheets, five packs of nails and 55 bags of fertilizer which were presented to the IDPs relief materials chairman in Maraba Kajuru.
While donating the materials, the President of the Kaduna Metro Ladies of St. Mulumba, Lady Esther David Ambosor said her association which is the Catholic Women Knighthood embarked on the donation of the materials exercise because one of the core value of the knighthood is service to humanity.
“We have sympathy for humans as women. We carry out selfless service in order to sustain humanity. We are mothers and anything that happens to any human being affects us”. She stressed.
She however called on the Kajuru Residents to be peaceful and vigilant at all times for the development of the area.
Meanwhile, the chairman, Relief Materials cCmmittee, Mr. John Sokoto said almost all IDPs both in the Sabo Tasha and the Maraba Kajuru, have left the camp to their various communities.
“We instructed them to go back in order to avoid a situation where the Fulani’s will take over their home and farm lands even though there is no roof over their heads to enable them secure their homes and farmlands, ” he noted.
According to him, his committee has been able to share the relief Materials donated by individual and corporate Christian bodies to the IDPs in which one bundle and pieces of roofing sheet was given to each of the victims to enable put even if is one room in order to manage.
He added that some of the IDPs after receiving those materials added their own money which enabled them put two or three rooms and have returned back with entire family.
According to him, only one third of the IDPs who are women and children whose husbands have returned back to their villages but couldn’t carry them along as they cannot stay in a single room remained at the camp.
The chairman however called on government, agencies and well meaning Nigerians to come to their aid by donating more building materials to enable those women and children unite with their husband’s and fathers.
