Emergency: Yobe Appeals For SpecialIntervention Fund

[Shola Sholaz]

The Yobe Government has appealed to the Federal Government to float an intervention fund to cushion the effects of the Boko Haram insurgency on affected states.
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The Special Adviser to the State Governor on Media and Information, Alhaji Abdullahi Bego, made the appeal in an interview in Damaturu on Sunday.
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Bego said that while the Yobe Government was totally in support of the declaration of emergency in the state, it would also like the Federal Government to set up a fund to assist people affected by the insurgency.
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He said that the State Government had been cooperating and providing logistics to the Joint Task Force (JTF), tackling the security problems.
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"We have provided more than 200 vehicles to the JTF in addition to paying allowances to the operatives.''
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He said that the state had spent about four billion naira since the insurgency started, describing the insurgency as a big drain on the meagre resources of the state.