President
Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria said his administration had begun the process of a
comprehensive compilation of data of the internally displaced persons, IDPs and
Nigerian refugees to speed up their resettlement. The President spoke when he
received the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
Ambassador Samantha Power, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.
According
the president, the compilation of the IDPs and refugees was being done by
designated Federal Government agencies, the military and other security
agencies. A large segment of the IDPs are mostly women and children, some of
the children are orphaned and don’t know where they came from.
He said they are
working on getting a comprehensive data of all the people in the camps so that
the government and NGOs will be properly briefed on where and how to support
them. The President also said that IDPs, who were into farming before they were
displaced by Boko Haram, would be mobilized and assisted by the Ministry of
Agriculture to return to their farms.
source: vanguardngr.com
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