INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN NIGER STATE SEEKS URGENT INTERVENTION TO AVERT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS 24-06-24
By Sadiq Aminu The Internally Displaced Persons IDP’S taken refuge in three Local Government Areas of Niger state, have called for urgent action by government and non governmental organisations to address the problelms of hunger, diseases and mal nutrition threatening their existence at the various camps.
The three Local Government Areas are Munya, Shiroro and Rafi.
They made the call in an interview with Africa 247 correspondent Sadiq Aminu during a visit to the Gwada and Kuta camps in Shiroro Local Government Area.
They also allegedly decried the non challant attitude towards thier plight by the Niger state Government while calling on corporate and philantrophic organisations to come to their aid to ameliorate their hardship.
IDP Desk Officer and Coordinator Shiroro Local Government Area, Yusuf Bala Kuta had earlier identified health and educational challenges coupled with inadequate food stuffs leading to hunger and mal nutrition as some of the problelms militating agaist their smooth operation.
He said the two IDP camps in Shiroro are housing over four thousand and fifty five persons including thirty eight from Zamfara state while many are staying outside the camp all of whom he said were displaced by attacks from Boko Haram and bandits at their ancestral homes.
On his part Malam Ahmed Almustapha lamented over the out of school children, diseases and inadequate toilets with about eighty people sleeping in one classroom, but however acknowledged that of recent the Chairman of Shiroro Local Government Area Akilu Kuta has provided them with drugs that has lasted for four weeks.
Niger state Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Alh Baba Suleiman Yumu explained that at the moment they have over forty thousand IDP’S spread across the state and that Governor Mohammed Umar Bago has been providing them with all the necessary support needed for a comportable living.