The #BringBacKOurGirls group has called for the continued improvement of the conditions of the Internally Displaced Persons, noting that the IDPS and their complete rehabilitation and resettlement have become part if its mandate.
The group, which started off as a movement for the rescue of the Chibok girls, also noted that the adverse effect of the Boko Haram insurgents, which have created the plight of the IDPs, have also become part of its campaign.
Addressing the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal, when he visited the group’s sit-out, the leader of the group, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili noted that the group does not only advocate for the safe return of the abducted girls but has spoken out on the pitiable state of IDP camps and the need for government to cater for the needs of the displaced persons.
She urged him to champion the cause of the 219 Chibok girls abducted by the Boko Haram sect since April, 14, 2014, noting that SGF was supposed to be at the fore front of the advocacy since he was once displaced by the Boko Haram sect.
The SGF had recently revealed that he was an IDP for six months in 2014, due to the activités of Boko Haram as he had lost his home, farmland and cattle when his home town in Adamawa State was attacked by the sect.
At the height of the attacks of the insurgents, the SGF had noted that “Five local governments in the northern senatorial district (of Adamawa) were completely taken over by insurgents. Two local governments in the central senatorial district, mine and the next one on its way to Yola, were completely taken over by insurgents.
“My house was the headquarters of one of the Amir or whatever they call themselves. So, for six months, I was an internally displaced person. Within that period, four people, my younger ones and others were on admission at the hospital in Mubi, the next big town to my own, where there’s some presence of general hospital,” he had stated during the Nigeria Economic Summit.
Meanwhile, Vice President Yomi Osinbajo had led a federal government delegation to the Northeast on a 2-day conference to marshal out ways of rehabilitating the IDPS and parts of the affected communities as a result of Boko Haram insurgency.
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