Federal Government Pledges To Support IDPS Willing To Return To Their Communities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 28, 2020
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq has expressed Federal Government’s willingness to support Internally-Displaced Persons, IDPs interested in returning to their communities.
Farouq, who stated this in Bauchi on Monday when she visitedGovernor Bala Mohammed, also said IDPs who wished to settle in their hostcommunities, would be encouraged.
The Minister explained that the North-East DevelopmentCommission, NEDC was established to address the challenges of the sub-region,while praying that the Commission would live up to its responsibilities.
She announced that her Ministry, in collaboration with theNational Emergency Management Agency, NEMA is in the State to provide aboutfifty-six thousand IDPs with bags of rice, wrapper-clothing materials, blanketsand packets of Maggi cubes, among others.
Also speaking, Governor Bala Mohammad, who was representedby his deputy, Baba Tela, said the State is located in a strategic place whichattracts IDPs from other north-eastern States.