‘We will build more resettlement cities for IDP’s, FG assures

Donates health relief items to host communities

Federal government has said that it will continue to build more resettlement homes for Internally Displaced Persons, (IDPs), across Nigeria in addition the ones under construction.

Honourable Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, (NCFRMI), Aliyu Ahmed, made this known during the flag off distribution of relief materials to IDPs host communities yesterday in Keffi, Nasarawa state.

Represented by the Director Human Resources Management, Bello Bello, he said “We are still in the course of building resettlement cities, the project is ongoing, after completion it will be properly handed over to our IDPs in affected states

Ahmed noted that the Commission by law is responsible for the protection, support and assistance as well as safeguarding of all persons of concern.

“Under our mandate, those persons of concern are refugees, IDPs, returnees, migrants and even stateless persons are under our care, we are extending the same gesture to other states like Edo, Zamfara, Kano and other states.

“Because of the nature of our operations, we do carry along host communities in the various places because those host communities are the ones that shelter our persons of concern and it is because of that we are here in Keffi local government where we are giving out some relief healthcare items.”

So basically our responsibility is not limited only to the IDPs but to the host communities also because normally, the IDPs c ok me t ok these communities to seek shelter and other things like education so we normally carry them along and we know that Kebbi and Nasarawa states are very hospitable to these people.

“The items include drugs and some educational items which we will give to the local government so that it will be shared to the host communities,” he explains.

Ahmed listed the items to include customized hospital beds, orthopedic mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, fridges, window blinds, customized cots, blood pressure monitoring machines and hospital drawers.

Others are doctors’ consulting tables and chairs, patient chairs, visitors’ waiting chairs, plastic chairs, drip stands, first aid boxes , thermometers and weight measurement instruments among others.

Chairman, Keffi local government area, Muhammed Baba-Shehu, who took delivery of the relief items assured the agency that the items will be distributed to the IDPs host communities.