President Bio Sends 2,400 Bags of Rice to Sierra Leoneans Affected by Yenga Border Issue
President Julius Maada Bio has dispatched 400 bags of 50kg rice and 2,000 bags of 25kg rice for free distribution to individuals whose livelihoods have been impacted by the recent insecurities at the Yenga border and its surrounding areas in Kissi Teng, Kailahun District.
The aid is intended for all internally displaced persons from Yenga and neighboring communities.
The delivery of the rice is being coordinated by Foreign Affairs Minister Alhaji Timothy Kabba, alongside the Resident Minister for the Eastern Province, Hon. Jusu Jaka Ngobeh.
According to Foreign Minister Kabba, President Bio is actively engaged in “very serious” diplomatic efforts “at the highest levels” to address the ongoing Yenga dispute.
The rice consignment has departed Freetown in military trucks and is currently en route to Kissi Teng, Kailahun via the provincial highway.
Thanks to the president for the aid, but this is not what the people of Yenga are yarning for. They want a urgent and totally freedom in their home land. The government of Sierra Leone needs to make sure the military officers of Guinea leaves Yenga before the end of this year .
Yenga issues is a deplomatic fight, we don’t want any war in sierra Leone and that of Guinea so let give chance to president of Sierra Leone to handle it
The aid is good for now and on a temporary basis, but the felt needs of the people is for the government to librate them from those tyrants. The aids in question is not permanent but our people want to have a peaceful living environment free of violence and threats. They want to go back to their farmlands and continue with their cultivation.