ECOWAS Donates N26m In Support Of Children Affected By Armed Conflict In Plateau

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Permanent Mission successful Nigeria has presented a cheque of N26 cardinal to the Plateau authorities Government successful enactment of children affected by equipped struggle successful immoderate communities successful the state.

ECOWAS’ Director of Humanitarian and Social Affairs, Dr. Sintiki Ugbe presented the cheque to the authorities authorities astatine a two-day store connected ‘Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) Nexus and Children Affected by Armed Conflict successful immoderate Communities’, holding successful Jos, Plateau State capital.

According to Dr Ugbe, the enactment volition supply captious alleviation successful the country of acquisition materials and schoolhouse fees to reconstruct entree to learning and anticipation for the aboriginal of the children.

Ugbe said the motion was besides to enactment with nutritional nutrient items to combat hunger and beforehand steadfast development, indispensable household items to assistance families rebuild their lives with dignity and wellness arsenic good arsenic the guarantee children’s well-being and reconstruct their consciousness of safety.

She urged the planetary assemblage to unite and enactment those impacted by humanitarian crises, by empowering section communities and recognised them arsenic progressive partners, not conscionable recipients, with the tools and dependable to signifier their futures.

According to her, “This benignant of concern is not lone commendable but essential,” adding that “by embracing the HDP Nexus, they are committed to a caller mode of moving that breaks down silos and builds bridges.

“We are saying that humanitarian assistance indispensable not lone prevention lives but laic the instauration for development.”

In his remarks, the Minister of State Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction Dr. Yusuf Sununu who was represented by the Deputy Director Humanitarian Affairs, Yakubu Adamu, commended the ECOWAS Commission for its tireless efforts successful backing and delivering humanitarian assistance crossed Nigeria.

He pointed retired that the concern with ECOWAS reflects a shared committedness to protecting displaced populations and supporting susceptible groups—particularly women and children.

Also speaking, the Director General, Plateau State Peace Building Agency (PSPBA), Julie Sanda, maintained that the State Government has remained committed to addressing the humanitarian dimensions of the struggle with the by mounting up of a fact-finding committee and different connected displacement to measure the standard of humanitarian needs crossed affected communities.

She stated that findings from the study released successful May 2025, revealed that 31,729 households had been displaced crossed Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Mangu, and Riyom section authorities areas.

The DG further disclosed that the staggering fig does not see much caller unit successful Mushere successful Bokkos LGA oregon the chronic, but under-reported displacements successful Quan’an Pan, Kanam, and Wase LGAs.

According to her, a PPBA-led appraisal has documented that immoderate of the ancestral lands of displaced persons person present been occupied by bandits, further complicating prospects for harmless instrumentality and reconciliation.

For his part, the Secretary to the Plateau State Government, Arc Samuel Jatau, represented by the Permanent Secretary successful his office, Timothy Gayi, pledged that the authorities authorities volition instrumentality the recommendations of the fact-finding committee connected Jos crises arsenic portion of efforts to halt decades of orchestrated attacks that person claimed guiltless lives successful rural communities.