5000 Bauchi IDPs to benefit from World Bank intervention grant

5000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bauchi State who are willing to go back to their respective communities are to benefit from a N200,000 Targeted Grant Transfer (TGT).

The TGT is a World Bank assisted intervention grant under the Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO).

Flagging of the grant in Bauchi, head of TGT component in the state, Mallam Kabiru Yusuf Kobi said the main objective of the TGT program is to encourage the enumerated 13,836 IDPs to go back to their communities or any other safe location to resettle.

“The first batch of 30,000 naira is the one we are flagging off today and it cut across all enumerated IDPs mined from the state social register.

“Thereafter, those IDPs willing to go back to their communities will be entitled to additional 20,000 as relocation allowance, 50,000 resettlement allowance and the final 100,000 as stabilization allowance, which brings it to the sum total of 200, 000 per beneficiary, Kobi said.

In his remark at the flag off ceremony, the state Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar lauded the TGT intervention which he described as timely.

Governor Abubakar who was represented by the secretary to the state government, Mohammed Nadada Umar, said that it is hoped that the beneficiaries will use the grant to improve their economic status wherever they find themselves.

“For those that want to go back to your respective communities, I urge you to make good use of what you are getting from the TGT intervention. For those of you that want to remain in Bauchi state, you are welcome and you will be given all the privileges that the indigenous people are enjoying too,” he said.

Speaking on behalf of the IDPs, Bauchi state chairman of IDPs Mallam Buba Musa Shehu expressed his gratitude to the World Bank, the Federal and Bauchi state governments for their efforts to rehabilite the IDPs in the state.