FG not paying attention to Benue IDPs – SEMA

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has accused the federal government of not paying adequate attention…

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has accused the federal government of not paying adequate attention to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state.

SEMA’s Executive Secretary, Dr Emmanuel Shior, stated this Thursday in Makurdi while distributing food to the IDPs.

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“The IDPs have been in camps for over four years now. It’s mind boggling that the federal government hasn’t paid much attention to Benue IDPs like those in the North East,” he said.

Shior said it was only occasionally that the federal government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the ministry of humanitarian would come to the aid of the displaced persons in the state even as he urged them to increase such food supplies so as to lessen the burden on the state government.

He lamented that schools, homes and bridges had been destroyed during the perennial herders-farmers clashes, thereby making access to affected villages difficult and increasing the number of the out of school children.

Daily Trust reports that the agency had put the figures of the IDPs in the state at over 1.5 million in over 15 official and unofficial IDPs camps across several local governments in the state.