By Vincent Ujumadu

Awka—ANAMBRA State government has distributed relief materials worth over N5 million to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who abandoned their homes at Aguleri Otu in Anambra East Local Government Area in the wake of the border clashes between the people of Anambra and Kogi states.

The IDPs, made up of about 100 families, were victims of the invasion of some parts of the oil –rich community by people     suspe cted to be from Odeke and Echeno in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State.

The relief materials distributed to the IDPs include mattresses, blankets, towels, bags of rice and beans, gallons of groundnut oil, buckets and jerry cans.

A director in Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Mr. Chuks Onyejekwe who handed over the items to the victims listed places of location of the IDPs to include Enugu Otu, Eziagulu Otu and Nkpu Nando in Aguleri Otu.

According to Onyekwere, the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano was committed to bringing succour to the IDPs, explaining that the state government was also collaborating with the Kogi State and Federal Governments to find a lasting solution to the boundary dispute between the two states.

He also explained that the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has promised to send more materials to the Aguleri Otu IDPs and urged leaders of the affected communities to ensure equitable sharing of the materials brought to them.