North East IDPs Hit 5m- Dogara

Leadership news paper reports this morning that the number of North East IDPs has hit 5m...Can you imagine the number ? 5 good million!!! Its sad to note the rise in the number of displaced persons in Nigeria. Have you taken  time to think what these displaced citizens pass through in life? We all need to join hands in cleaning up this insurgence menace in the country...God help us!!!

The number of Nigerians displaced by violence in the insurgency-ravaged North East has 

reached five million, speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has said.

Dogara who spoke when he received the head of the United Nations High Commission for 

Refugees (UNHCR), Ms. Angel Dekonge Antangara in his office, disputed official figures of 

IDPs put at 2.1 million.

He said the actual number of people affected by Boko Haram insurgency may be close to five million.

“As an indigene of the North East, it is safe to say the number of IDPs in Nigeria can be 

up to five million,” Dogara said in a statement issued by his spokesman, Turaki Hassan.

Dogara recalled that he has sponsored a motion which in part, requested President 

Muhammadu Buhari to urgently establish a North East Development Commission and 

convene an International Donor Conference or Summit to mobilise additional financial 

resources through international donor funding for the rehabilitation of the North East.

The speaker appealed for help for the North East from the UNHCR and other donors.

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