President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration has
begun the process of putting together comprehensive data
on all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Nigerian refugees with a view to speeding up their resettlement.
The President stated this while receiving the United States Permanent Representative to
the United Nations, Ambassador Samantha Power, at the Presidential Villa, on Thursday, April 21.
President Buhari said that the compilation of reliable data on the IDPs and refugees was being handled by designated Federal Government agencies, the military and other security agencies.
"We have frightening indices of the number of people
and the situation in the IDP camps across the country.
And in spite of the government’s efforts and the hospitality of
individuals and organizations, the situation needs better handling.
"A large segment of
the IDPs are mostly
women and children.
Some of the children
are orphaned and
don’t know where
they came from.
"Now we are working on getting a comprehensive data of all the people in the camps so that the government and NGOs will be properly briefed on where and how to support them," he said.
The President said that IDPs, who were into farming before they were displaced by the Boko Haram, will be mobilized and assisted by the Ministry of
Agriculture to return to their farms.
Ambassador Power commended the Federal Government for always being the first and highest responder to the IDPs in various
camps in the country.
Power, who had earlier visited Nigerian refugees in Cameroun, said the situation in the
camps could be improved with more
information on the
number of people in the camps and their areas of need.
More details to come...
--https://uzopedia.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/some-of-the-idps-are-orphaned-children-and-they-dont-know-where-they-came-from-president-buhari/
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