By Mohamed Omar Hassan
Galkacyo: The semiautonomous state of Gal-Mudug in central Somalia has strongly criticized the humaniterain agencies which are within its territorial.
This authority has condemned the Humanitarian agencies for not helping the stern drought affected people in the region.
The Minister for planning and international relations in Gal-Mudug state Mr. Omar Mohamoud Roble has criticized the humanitarian agencies, after touring some of the warehouses of the World Food Programme.
"After we have made toured the big warehouses of the World Food Programme we have seen that these warehouses contain surplus of food and of course there are hundreds of drought affected people who have been lately pouring in Galkacyo town after having lost their livestock, in fact these people have nothing to feed and WFP has sufficient food in its stores, so thus we are strongly denouncing for WFP having a large quantity of food in its stores while hundreds of people are starving, we are also recommending WFP with immediate effect to distribute these food" said the Minister for Planning and international relations of Gal-Mudug state Mr. Mohamoud Omar Roble.
Mr. Roble has as well alerted all other humanitarian agencies to fulfil their duties in the region
The WFP personnel on the ground have told the Minister that the food in the warehouses are scheduled to be distributed in the coming month, and have no authority from above that they should distribute the food to the starving people.
Eventually the Minister has said that if WFP ignores the alarming situation of the starving people, the authority of Gal-Mudug state will scale down the humanitarian activities of WFP in the region.
Source:http://www.somaliweyn.org/pages/news/Jan_11/17Jan19.html
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