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  • FG will push for resettlement of 2.4m IDPs — Official

    FG will push for resettlement of 2.4m IDPs — Official

    Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Alhaji Bashir Garba, says Federal Government will push for resettlement of  2.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country.

    Garba disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday during the distribution of food items and other relief materials to rural communities in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.

    The communities were recently attacked by bandits.

    He stated that Katsina State was among seven states in the country that would benefit from the 500 Household Resettlement City Intervention Project.

    According to him, the aim is to reduce poverty level within the country and protect those who have been displaced due to no fault of theirs.

    Garba explained that the cities would be equipped with facilities like clinics, schools, open markets, religious centres and other livelihood facilities.

    The commissioner said the commission would design the project in partnership with each benefitting state government.

    He said the benefitting states were Katsina, Adamawa, Kano, Cross-River, Benue, Borno and Yobe.

    Garba said the commission was in the state at the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajiya Sadiya Farouk, to commiserate with Governor Aminu Masari and people of the state, as well as distribute relief materials to  victims of the recent attack. (NAN)

  • Gov. Zulum urges refugee commission to prioritise resettlement of IDPs

    Gov. Zulum urges refugee commission to prioritise resettlement of IDPs

    Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has called on the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), to accord priority to the resettlement of displaced persons.

    Mr Isa Gusa, the Special Adviser to the governor on Public Relations and Strategy, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Maiduguri.

    He disclosed that the governor made the appeal when the Federal Commissioner of the commission, Sen. Basheer Mohammed, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Maiduguri.

    He quoted the governor as saying that the commission should focus on creating permanent settlement for displaced persons rather than official IDPs camps.

    Zulum stressed the need to move from the proliferation of IDPs camps to a durable solution through the establishment of permanent settlement and provision of livelihood to the displaced persons in safe areas.

    “We are happy with your interventions; however, we request you not to focus on IDPs camps rather on stabilisation for the IDPs.

    “I mean contributing in the construction of resettlement houses, which could be allocated to households as their permanent places of abode, and we provide means of livelihood to sustain them.

    “As a government; we are moving from the phase of enhancing IDPs camps to the resettlement, and by resettlement, I do not mean building houses elsewhere, the houses could be located near the camps, we will provide the land,” Zulum said.

    The governor added that his administration had established an agency to enhance coordination of humanitarian interventions, check duplication and streamline government’s policies and programmes.

    The statement also quoted Mohammed as saying that Qatari Foundation had indicated interest to build a settlement for the displaced persons.

    Mohammed appealed to the state government to provide land, to facilitate execution of the project.

    He added that the commission had provided vocational and skills acquisition training to a number of displaced persons, to enable them to learn trades and become self-reliant. (NAN)

  • Plateau IDPs want assistance from FG, international community

    Plateau IDPs want assistance from FG, international community

    By Our Reporter

    Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Plateau have appealed to the Federal Government and international Community render assistance to them just like their counterparts in the North-East.
    Prince Barnabas Philip, IDPs’ Camp Coordinator, Barkin Ladi, made the call during a two day Meet the IDPs tour by the Management Committee Chairman of Barkin Ladi Local Government of a Plateau, Ezekiel Mondyau.
    Most of Camp coordinators, who spoke in the various camps visited, made the same request.
    “Sir, could you believe that in this very camp, where we have over 2000 IDPs as a result of the attacks on Gashish District last year, since November last year no single government official or organisation visited us to assist us.
    “We have teeming children and women, most of who are widows and orphans, yet nobody cares to come to around to feel what we are feeling till this your (Chairman’s) visit to us today.
    “The visitor and assistance we got was a Christian Organization since November last year, yet each time we hear on Television and Radio, billions of Naira being pumped to our counterparts in the North-East.
    Philip told the Chairman that what they wanted was for them to return to their respective communities if only Government, Corporate bodies and wealthy individuals and Philanthropists could assist them to “rebuild our destroyed houses and provide adequate security for us.”
    NAN reports that the speech of Philip brought tears to many people on the Chairman’s entourage, including him (Mondyau).
    Responding, Mondyau told the IDPs that it was out of Government’s concern that he embarked on the two day meet the IDPs tour and assured them of Government’ readiness to assist them to return to their respective communities.
    Mondyau pledged to relate their plights and pleas to both the state and federal government for necessary assistance, but also assured them of his “widow’s might” at alleviating their plights.
    He said part of Governor Simon Lalong plans, was ensure that all the IDPs in the 12 camps returned to their respective communities before the new year. (NAN)