Dan Garba
As the controversy surrounding the disappearance of 70 trucks of grains allocated to Adamawa state by the presidency rings on, stakeholders have called for thorough investigations to unravel the misery behind the disappearance .
The grains was sent to Adamawa state under the Presidential Initiative in the North-Nast to caution the hardship caused by the insurgency, but was not distributed to most local government area affected by the insurgency.
It would be recalled that in June this year ,the office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) came to Adamawa state to flag-off the distributions of the grains allocated to the state.
During the ceremony, the representative of SGF the occasion Senior Special Assistant to the President on Policy Development and Analysis Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Bapetel announced that 40 trucks were on ground for distribution at that time, promising that the remaining would arrive later.
Stakeholders and beneficiaries who spoke to journalists in Yola Thursday frowned at the way the distribution of the commodities was carried out, regretted that the commodities were distributed to relatives of distributors instead of the generality of the people that the commodities were meant for.
A member of the House of representative representing Madagali amd Michika Federal constituency Adama Kamale expressed worry at the way and manner when into wrong hands.
Kamale revealed that Madagali and Michika local governments being his constituency and most affected local governments by the insurgency did not receive a single grain.
He said as the representative of the people he is authoritatively telling the nation, the world and the state that the people of Michika and Madagali did not benefit from the so called distribution.
He promise that if the house resume from recess he is going to sponsor a motion calling for full investigation in to the matter.
Says Amos John a resident of Mubi ‘’as far as we are concerned the issue of the grain was a farce because we never receive single grain talk less of bags of grains we are calling on federal government to probe the matter.
Asked to comment on whether some of his people collected the grains he says as far as they are concerned they would have been aware about it’’.
