Leaders of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) have called on the Federal Government to help the people of southern part of Kaduna State by creating a development commission to address the humanitarian crisis facing 148 communities as a result of the attacks and killings by Fulani herdsmen and other terror gangs.

SOKAPU made the appeal, yesterday, in Kaduna, while flagging off the distribution of the relief materials procured with the N200 million provided by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, to ameliorate the plight of those affected by the numerous terror attacks in the state.

Distributing the items to the victims in Southern Kaduna communities, the President of SOKAPU, Jonathan Asake, said not fewer than 200,000 people had been displaced by the Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists from their homelands in 148 communities, adding: “They are presently facing serious humanitarian crisis.”

Most of the victims, according to Asake, are women and children, who are squatting with other families and many of them are in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps created by churches and other groups, except the state government.”

Asake stressed the need for urgent intervention by the Federal Government and the Kaduna State to immediately meet the need of the people by creating the development commission to address the plight of the victims.

“Most of them are in urgent need of medical attention as a result of bullet wounds, ill-health caused by the attack and killings by herdsmen, bandits and other terrorists in Southern Kaduna,” he said.

However, the SOKAPU leader called on other stakeholders in the country to come to the aid of the victims displaced from their native lands.