Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Laud’s Zulum For His Proactive Committments to Resettlement of IDPs

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, laud’s Zulum for his proactive commitments to resettlement of IDPs

By Madu Mohammed Maiduguri

The minister of humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu has lauded Governor Babagana Zulum for his pro-activeness in handling the issue of security, humanitarian and resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

The Minister who made the commendation when she paid a courtesy Call on Governor Zulum at the Government House, Maiduguri on Thursday said ” we are going to establish humanitarian hubs across the 774 local government areas in the country to identify the real poor of the poorest at the grassroots communities to form the social register. The register is going to be dynamic because anybody that exit poverty level.should be expunged from the register and replace by others.’

We don’t want the social register to be permanent. We must always review the social register because somebody may be eligible to be on the list today but not eligible tomorrow..It will be dynamic it can be expanded to accommodate more vulnerable persons”, She added.

At the Bulunkutu rehabilitation centre, the minister assured the Chibok girls and other vulnerable Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu is committed to take them out of poverty, and that the ministry is working on durable and sustainable solution to the poverty issues in Nigeria..

She later presented some food items to the Chibok girls, unaccompanied children and other vulnerable victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.Items includes bags of beans, rice,millets oil and condiments.

Responding, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state said ” in addressing the issue of insecurity, there is need to address the root cause of the insurgency which us poverty,, stressing that issues of IDP camp is no longer sustainability because of cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV), among others.they need to be supported with livelihood assistance

He said there are over 200,000 Nigerian refugees in Niger republic,60,000 in Cameroon Republic and 45,000 in Chad.We need to repatriate them and provide them.with shelter,food and livelihood supports.

He assured that the Borno state government will continue to partner with the Federal Government in addressing poverty, hunger, support to SMEs and resettlement of IDP and refuges.