Disturbed by the challenges that Internally Displaced Persons [IDPs] face at various camps across the country,President Muhammadu Buhari last week noted their growing numbers and the numerous health, feeding and security challenges that they face. Speaking when he received in audience the President of the 74th United Nations General Assembly Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Buhari demanded urgent rehabilitation for IDPs.
The Boko Haram insurgency that has festered since 2009 has forced millions of people out of some Local Government Areas in Borno State, who became IDPs in Maiduguri and beyond. Many of them depend on federal and state governments as well as humanitarian aid by NGOs and good samaritans. Thousands of them have found their way to other states and Abuja in search of peace and security. Many IDPs have been in the camps for at least six years with no prospect of going back home anytime soon.
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