President Muhammadu Buhari has assured
that the return of persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency to
their home communities will start in earnest next year.
Buhari gave the assurance at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday while receiving a delegation of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) led by former British Foreign Minister David Miliband.
The president said his government would do everything within its powers to facilitate the quick return and resettlement of over two million internally displaced persons in their towns and villages.
He said his administration would welcome the support of the International Rescue Committee and other local and international non-governmental organisations the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons.
“In 2016, the return of the IDPs will start in earnest. They will return to their communities to meet destroyed schools and other infrastructure which have to be rebuilt. With agriculture being moribund in the region in the last two years without cropping, hunger is already manifest. We will welcome all the help we can get to assist the returnees,” he said.
In a response to Miliband’s request for the Nigerian government’s priorities on the nature of assistance required for the internally displaced persons, Buhari said there was an urgent need for support in the areas of agricultural inputs, health, nutrition, water and sanitation.
Buhari gave the assurance at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday while receiving a delegation of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) led by former British Foreign Minister David Miliband.
The president said his government would do everything within its powers to facilitate the quick return and resettlement of over two million internally displaced persons in their towns and villages.
He said his administration would welcome the support of the International Rescue Committee and other local and international non-governmental organisations the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons.
“In 2016, the return of the IDPs will start in earnest. They will return to their communities to meet destroyed schools and other infrastructure which have to be rebuilt. With agriculture being moribund in the region in the last two years without cropping, hunger is already manifest. We will welcome all the help we can get to assist the returnees,” he said.
In a response to Miliband’s request for the Nigerian government’s priorities on the nature of assistance required for the internally displaced persons, Buhari said there was an urgent need for support in the areas of agricultural inputs, health, nutrition, water and sanitation.
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