Communal Clashes: Kogi East Senator seeks government intervention four years after
Speaking through order 42 and 52 of Senate rules, the lawmaker representing Kogi East Senatorial District explained that the devastation of parts of Bassa local government Area in Kogi State occasioned by the communal clashes in 2016 and 2019 has left the indigenes homeless till date.
“Senate notes that Bassa local government with headquarters in Oguma in Kogi East Senatorial District has 1,925 kilometers and has a population of about 185,000. “On the 8th of January, 2019, Sharia town was completely razed and people deserted for fear of their lives and after persuasion, the displaced people have agreed to return home.
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