Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaInsecurity Displaces Over 6.1 Million Nigerians- NCFRMI

Over 6.1 million Nigerians were said to have been displaced by insecurity and natural disasters.

Alhaji Tijjani Aliyu, Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) disclosed this during a visit to Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State in Katsina.

“As of 2022, the commission had about 3 million displaced persons, but with floods and other natural disasters, we now have an additional 100 percent of such displaced people.”

“Today, I can authoritatively say that we have not less than 6.1 million Nigerians displaced out of their homes.

“What do we do if all of them cannot go back, how do we find them? Can the government continue to feed them, providing them succor?

“Not possible, we have to find a way to teach these individuals trades, give them skills, so that at the end of the day, they can be on their own,” he said.

Aliyu said the visit was to distribute food items to about 700 displaced people in the state.

“Before today, the commission has been putting its efforts to ensure that these people were not left in an undignified way. Their children have received educational training funds from us.

“About 120 of them were trained, and also about 70 of their mothers were given some small starter packs to improve their living standard,” he said.

The Federal Commissioner said the commission will construct three well-furnished skills acquisition centres across the Northeast, from the 2024/2025 budget.

He added that the commission had identified the problem of water in the IDP camp but immediately intervened by providing a solar-powered borehole.

“We have also built settlement cities in IDPs camp located areas, for those who may not want to go back to their ancestral homes, and Katsina is one of the beneficiaries,” he said.

The NCFRMI boss said the commission also intended to enroll the IDPs in a health insurance scheme to take care of their health challenges.

Responding, Gov. Radda commended the commission’s gesture, describing it as a collective responsibility of both the state and the federal governments to ensure the welfare and well-being of the IDPs.

Radda stated that the state had recently witnessed a lot of security challenges, in eight frontline local government councils of the state, that were the food basket of the state, adding that most of the communities were displaced.

He, however, noted with satisfaction that with the inauguration of the Katsina Security Watch Corps (SWC), the security situation had improved and pleaded for more collaboration with neighboring states.

The governor expressed optimism that with the federal government’s recent deployment of additional security operatives, criminals would not be given breathing space.

The federal commissioner later led other officials to flag off the distribution of food items to the IDPs.

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