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Enugu moves to avert farmers and herdsmen clashes
Abiodun Ozurumba, Enugu
The Enugu State Government has taken another major step in its determination to avert the often deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herdsmen in the state with the approval of monthly subventions to the State Farmer/Pastoralist Peace Commission.
The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chuks Ugwoke, who announced this while briefing reporters at the end of the State Executive Council Meeting, also said the State Government is to establish a Psychiatry/Mental Health Care Unit at the State Social Welfare Centre, Emene, Enugu State, Eastern Nigeria.
Subvention commission
According to Mr. Ugwoke, the approval to place the commission on subvention list was to ensure the smooth running of the Commission and check the intermittent clashes between crop farmers and pastoralists in the state.
He said that the commission had been mandated to develop grazing reserves in some parts of the state in order to reduce the clashes.
The psychiatric health care unit, he disclosed is to be run by the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Enugu, for the treatment of the mentally challenged persons usually kept at the centre by the Ministry of Gender Affairs.
Mr. Ugwoke explained that the Ministry of Gender and Social Development would still handle the social welfare services at the centre.
The Commissioner, who was accompanied by his Culture and Tourism counterpart, Mr. Joe Mmamel, the Commissioner of Human Development and Poverty Reduction, Mr. Godwin Ogenyi and Mr. Ogbogu Asogwa, Special Assistant to the governor on Special Project, also used the occasion to announce the Governor’s approval of the appointment of nine new Permanent Secretaries in the State Public Service.
They are Mr. Ayogu Patrick Mbadiwe, Eze Charles Chukwuemeka, Eze Patricia Ngozi (Mrs) and Ijeh Lazarus Chukwuma.
Others are Ike Sylvanus Ekwunife, Nebo Chuka, Nnamani Innocent Onyeka, Nwangwu Magnus Onyekere and Ugwu Casmir Kanayo
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