By Peter Duru, Makurdi

The National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, N-HYPPADEC, has donated relief materials to victims of Yelewata attack with a charge on people to support security agencies with intelligence to help them tackle insecurity in the communities.

Making the donation at the Benue State Emergency Management Agency, BSEMA, headquarters in Makurdi, the acting Managing Director of the commission, Mr. Jimoh Gabi said the relief materials would help alleviate the sufferings of the displaced victims of the June 13, 2025 attack.

Gabi who decried the Yelewata attack, advised Nigerians to be security conscious and alsl support securiry agencies in the discharge of their responsibilities.

He said, “We should be more sensitive to our environment and should always supprt our security agencies with intelligence that would help them avert insecurity.”

He also urged the state government to ensure the judicious distribution of the relief materials to the targeted beneficiaries.

Receiving the items, Governor Hyacinth Alia, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Samuel Ode described N-HYPPADEC as a dependable partner in the response to the needs of the people of the state in distress.

He noted that “the commission has been contributing to the economy of Benue State and also lifting people out of poverty and it has risen to the occasion to alleviate the suffering of the people in the areas that were affected.

“In the future, we will work with you so that we can plan on the issue of disaster management, we should not only be responding when it occurs, we can also act in anticipation of some of these things and address them before they happen.”

The Governor assured that the donated materials would be judiciously distributed to the affected persons to help ease their suffering.

Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management/BSEMA, James Iorpuu represented by the BSEMA Head of Administration, Dr. Donald komgbenda who lauded N-HYPPADEC for the intervention also raised concern over the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, situation in Naka, the Gwer West Local Government Area, LGA, which he said had risen to over 30,000.

Items donated by the commission includes 195 bags of 50kg rice,195 pieces of mattresses, 65 cartoons of treated mosquito nets, 65 cartoon of washing detergent among others.