FG to build 600 houses for IDPs in Kano

The federal government is to build over 600 houses for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kano, Senator Bashir Mohammed Lado, the Federal Commissioner of National Commission for Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Persons has said.

He disclosed this on Monday while flagging off the distribution of food items and materials to 7,500 persons affected by natural disasters.

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While noting that at least 2.6 million persons are presently displaced across Nigeria, Lado said that the federal government has concluded plans to resettle the displaced persons.

Besides, he explained that the commission is establishing 50 different vocational skills centres to train the displaced persons and funds will be provided to help the beneficiaries after the training.

Senator Lado said, “The distribution of the food items was a first to the many more interventions aimed at making it easy for the displaced persons as well as those affected by disasters”.

Governor Abdullah Umar Ganduje said 47,616 persons were affected by various forms of natural disaster in Kano and pledged a donation of 20 hectares of land to the refugees’ commission for the construction of the housing scheme.