Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed concern over the paltry provision of N1.6 billion to cater to the immediate needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country.
Speaking when the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and IDPs, Ahmed Tijani Ahmed paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja, he called for a comprehensive report on the statistics of IDPs) in Nigeria as well as those in the neighbouring countries who were also displaced by natural disasters.
Kalu who attributed some of the displacements to the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and erosion mainly occasioned by climate change said that the parliament is interested in the data on the total national NEEDS analysis on IDPs.
He also said that some Nigerians forced to migrate across the borders by the effect of the natural occurrences on their villages…
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