President Muhammadu Buhari says persons displaced by Boko Haram
insurgency will earnestly begin to return to their home communities in
2016. He said this when a delegation from the
International Rescue Committee (IRC), led by former British Foreign
Minister, Mr David Miliband, visited him in Abuja on Wednesday. 'My administration will do all within its powers to facilitate the
quick return and resettlement of over two million internally displaced
persons to their respective towns and villages' -Buhari said.
Buhari said Federal Government would welcome the support of the IRC
and other local and international non-governmental organisations for the
rehabilitation of internally displaced persons.
“In 2016, the
return of the IDPs will start in earnest. They will return to their
communities to meet destroyed schools and other infrastructure which
have to be rebuilt.
“With agriculture moribund in the region in the last two years without cropping, hunger is already manifest. “We will welcome all the help we can get to assist the returnees’’, he said.
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