Following the perennial clashes between the Lunguda and Waja communities spread between Adamawa and Gombe states, the Governors of the two states Rt. Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya have donated the sum of N50m to enable IDPs to return home and summoned a peace meeting in Numan, to discuss lasting peace

Prominent personalities from both sides attend the peace meeting, tagged the “Numan Peace Accord”, where the Gombe Governor read some resolutions signed by the two Governors and the paramount rulers of the two communities; HRH Kwandi Lunguraya Kuruhaye Dishon Dansanda and HRH Bala Waja Muhammad Danjuma Mohammed.

The resolution among others stated that the two communities cannot be separated having lived and intermarried for centuries, while all Internally Displaced Person camps are closed within the next one week and people returned back to their homes.

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The stakeholders further disbanded militia and hunter groups and their activities proscribed in both communities of the two states, among other resolutions

The communique further called on the paramount rulers of Lunguda and Waja communities to ensure that the lingering land issues between the two communities are resolved so that people can go back to their farms in safety, while Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya and his Adamawa counterpart, Ahmadu Fintiri announced a donation fifty million nairas to support the return of the IDPs to their ancestral homes