Security: NERI Donates Motor-Cycles, Other Items To Community Watch Volunteers

The Nigeria Early Recovery Initiative, NERI with the support of Jema’a Local Government Council has donated 4 Motorcycles and other items to 80 Youths Community watch volunteers in Fori, Gwong Chiefdom of Kaduna State.

The Chairman, Jema’a Local Government, Mr. Peter Danjuma Averik disclosed this in a Press statement through information officer of the LG Mr. Sunday Dauda and made available to newsmen in kafanchan.

According to the statement, Other items presented include: Safety boots, rain coats and Umbrellas,Water-proof, Wrist watches, Torch-lights, Transistor Radios, and Whistles all numbering up to Eighty 80 each.

It explains further that, while handing over the items to the Council Chairman, Program’s Manager NERI, Mrs Chikodinaka Omokide said the 80 Youths community watch volunteers comprises Fori youths and their Fulani neighbors that have been trained on Early warning, Early signs mechanisms and strategic conflict reporting system.

The statement points that NERI, a unit of the United States Agency for International Development Office Transition Initiative will provide two motorized boreholes and install 20 street lights in strategic locations in Fori community.

Mrs. Omokide says Fori is one community in Jema’a Local Government with rich history of peaceful co-existence hence the decision of the agency to encourage the people and other communities to continue to live as one family despite their ethnic, cultural and religious differences.

In their separate remarks, the village head of Fori, Mr Vosco Maigari and the Ardo Fori, Mallam Umar Juli Kagoma appreciated NERI for the assistance and promised to reciprocate the gestures by strengthening the existing unity and peaceful co-existence in the Community.