Nigeria has about 2.3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in different camps across the country, the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Senator Basheer Mohammed, has said.
Speaking yesterday at the flag-off of the distribution of care/maintenance items to IDPs in Dutsinma, Mohammed said the country’s IDPs were largely due to Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, banditry and other internal clashes that ravaged parts of the country.
He said it was in view of this that the commission was in Katsina to perform normal intervention aimed at alleviating the sufferings of victims through the distribution of food and non-food items, including drugs.
“The commission is by no means a stranger to Katsina State as we have been around severally in the past to deliver care and maintenance materials, instructional materials, agricultural inputs and training of IDPs on skill acquisitions. All these are aimed at providing durable solutions for our persons of concern,” he said.
Daily Trust reports that the benefitting IDP’s were those from three local government areas of Dutsinma, Kurfi, and Safana, and items shared included 241 bags of rice, 190 bags of beans, 800 cooking stoves, 200 pots, blankets, wrappers amongst others.
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