August 14, (THEWILL) – The Benue State Government has challenged President Muhamadu Buhari to take concrete steps towards ending the killings terrorists and resettle Internally Displaced Persons in their ancestral homes.
The Executive Secretary of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Emmanuel Shior, who made the appeal last Friday in Makurdi while distributing relief food and non-food materials for the month of August to IDPs, stated that the number keeps rising due to incessant attacks by Fulani terrorists.
The SEMA boss said the state government required the sum of N500 million monthly to take proper care of IDPs, lamenting that over 400 persons were displaced in last Wednesday’s attack by Fulani terrorists in Logo Local Government Area.
“The problems in Internally Displaced Persons camp in the state is not only humanitarian but also infrastructural as roads, bridges, houses were destroyed by invading terrorists herdsmen since 2018. Benue State will not stop crying out until the Federal Government wakes up to its responsibility.
“The difference between Benue IDPs and that of Borno State is that Governor Zulum enjoys support from the Federal Government and over 200 NGOs, as well as other agencies providing incentives. In spite of the neglect, Governor Samuel Ortom remains resolute in his resolve to cater for them”.
Shior also commended Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for his support to the state government, with regard to the IDPs.
He accused the Federal Government of failure to promote education as students are out of school for over three years, while insecurity and the economy have taken a turn for the worse.
While calling on Nigerians to use their PVCs to vote the APC government out of power in 2023, Shior hoped the PDP would come in to salvage the system for the good of Nigerians.
The SEMA boss said the agency had sensitised the people on the need to stop dumping refuse and building structures on water channels in order to check flooding in the state.
According to him, the agency, in collaboration with other agencies, is ready to take care of IDPs camps that will be flooded during this year’s rain fall.
Items distributed include bags of rice, millet, cassava flour, sorghum and Indomie noodles, among others.
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