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We can’t sustain spending N5bn a month on IDP camps – Senate
BY PAUL SILAS
It costs Nigeria N5 billion every month to take care of the displaced persons in IDP camps in the north eastern part of the country.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Special Duties, Senator Yusuf A. Yusuf, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Abuja on his committee’s findings after an oversight visit to various IDP camps in the northeast.
The lawmaker said the government must stop “IDP syndrome”, noting that there were no resources to sustain spending such huge amount on the IDPs.
He therefore charged the security agencies to do more in ensuring that the insurgency come to an end, so that people could return to their various towns and villages safely.
“It is a very sad thing that I have seen in the IDP camps. There are 2.7 million people in the IDP camps. No amount of resources that can sustain or take care of their palliatives.
“We cannot continue to believe that the IDP syndrome should continue. We must exit it at one time or the other. It is a sad thing.
“There are children who are orphans in all respect and most of them are below the age of 18.
“The government, the development partners are doing their best but the resources are very small.
“We cannot sustain spending about 5 billion Naira a month to take care of these people.
“What we will do is to put our hands on deck and make sure that security is provided for them to go back to their homes, so that we can reduce the mounting pressure on our resources to take care of the IDPs.”
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