The Federal Government has said that recent media reports about the movement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the northern part of Nigeria to the Southeast for skills acquisition and vocational training were a ‘misrepresentation of information’ provided to the press during the visit.
Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Tijani Ahmed, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing the press on the development, which he said has led to the destruction of public and private property in Imo State by angry youth.
Ahmed explained that the agency’s ‘Skills to Wealth’ initiative, under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, seeks to establish a skills acquisition centre in each of the six geopolitical zones for the empowerment of persons of concern, including migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons,…
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