Fire Burns Relief Materials Worth N500Million For Flood Victims In Makurdi.

History has repeated itself in Benue state. Relief materials meant for displaced persons who suffered from last year's flooding have been allegedly damaged by fire.

An afternoon inferno engulfed a block of three classrooms in Makurdi Benue State, housing relief materials meant for last year flood victims.

After the Tiv-Jukun crisis in 2001, relief materials donated by different groups remained in the store house until soldiers burnt them.

Some residents attributed the fire out break to a wielding fault which sparked off fire inside the classroom.

Men of the state fire service struggled hard to put out the fire which destroyed most of the materials just as officials of the State Emenrgency Relief Management Agency were seen trying to remove some un burnt materials.

Security men also worked hard to wade off some residents who trooped to the area with the intention to loot the materials.

Speaking to journalists on the incidence, the executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Adikpo Agbatse lamented over the development, confirming that all materials in the classroom meant for flood victim was almost reduced to ashes.

However, a victim of the flood Mr. John Adamu who resides in Angwan Jukum, Wurukum area of  Makurdi, accused the state government officials of sabotage.

He wondered why materials meant for distribution to the victims should be kept in a store when it should be disbursed to them, noting that it is a plot to divert the materials.