The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria are willing to return home, the Vice Chairman of Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative (PCNI), Tijjani Tumsa has said.
This is against claims in some quarters that the IDPs were not feeling safe returning home.
But Mallam Tumsa, while speaking after the PCNI’s coordination forum for the month of September which was held in Abuja on Thursday, said the IDPs were actually showing readiness to return home.
“Yes they are [willing to return home]. A substantial number of them want to go back and they want to go back into a secured environment.
“The military in Nigeria are doing very well. They have recovered quite a few areas and after the recovery of those areas, those areas have become stable.
“What I will encourage them to do is to continue to work with us in providing for us, safe areas for return so that people who are willing to go back to their communities are able to do so as soon as possible,” he said.
The forum which had as its theme “Defining an effective return strategy for the Northeast”, was to discuss the possible strategies to adopt in returning the IDPs to their respective communities.
It also discussed matters related to safe, voluntary and dignified return of the displaced population of the Northeast.
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