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The Federal Government has relocated 40 households of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees, totaling over 300 individuals, to a resettlement city in Keffi, Nasarawa State which aims to provide decent accommodation and renew hope for the less privileged
According to Tijani Ahmed, Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), the beneficiaries were selected based on their willingness to relocate.
While at the weekend in Keffi resettlement city, Ahmed explained that the beneficiaries were selected based on their willingness to relocate.
He also disclosed that plans are ongoing to reintegrate the IDPs and refugees into the immediate community, adding that they would be equipped with skills to make them self-reliant.
He said: “About 40 households, comprising about 300 individuals have been relocated to this place. So, the place has been fully allocated.
“We have successfully relocated them to the resettlement city and the next thing we are going to do is to reintegrate them with the immediate community.
“We visited the Emir of Keffi to inform him of this activity in the resettlement city and we hope that by the end of the fasting period, we are going to have an elaborate exercise where those IDPs and refugees that are intended to resettle here in Kefi will all be here and settled and also ensure that we reintegrate them into the community around the city.
“We are going to equip them with some trade, we will make sure that they learn a trade so that they can have what they can live on for their livelihood and in addition to that, at the end of the day we will make the refugees, who are our major mandate, get adequate protection and assistance he added
“We are going to provide them with greenhouses where they can farm some little things.
Already arrangements have been made with the security in the state, including the SUBEB of Nassarawa state, where they will learn us with some of their teachers and then the primary health care development agencies; some of their staff will take care of their health, he said.
Moreso, plans are underway to reintegrate them into the local community, equip them with skills for self-reliance, and provide adequate protection and assistance.
