Emergency Humanitarian Assistance : Relief Reaches Over 6,500 IDPs

Over 6,500 people fleeing violence from the North West and South West Regions have received aid materials in Bafoussam in the West Region and Bamenda in the North West Region as the government carries on with the Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Plan. Last week was a charged one for the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, who personally supervised the distribution exercise, at times under rainfall or running late into the night.
Officials of the Department of Civil Protection in the Ministry of Territorial Administration told Cameroon Tribune that the aid materials given to the IDPs are of basic necessity and were chosen by themselves. They consist among others of mattresses, blankets, rice, cooking oil, sugar, laundry soap, can food and toiletries. Each of the beneficiaries left the distribution ground in Bafoussam like in Bamenda with a complete set of items, in addition to cash to ease transportation. They add to thousand others who have benefited from a similar assistance and the exercise is continuing in other places.
Minister Atanga Nji told the beneficiary IDPs and the population of the two cities, which turned out en masse to witness the donation exercise that government is working relentlessly to restore peace and order in the restive regions and to ensure the return of IDPs to their homes. He noted that hope was in the horizon, especially with the announced Major National Dialogue rolled out by President Paul Biya. "I share in your plight and that is why I kept to my promise of coming back with more assistance,...