Niger IDPs beg Gov. Bello for relief materials

From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna

Some Niger state Internally Displaced Persons in Kafin-Koro town, Paikoro local government Area of the state have lamented lack of food and other basic needs in their camp.

To this end, they made a passionate appral to the State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, to Direct the State Emergency Management Agency to urgently provide the necessary basic needs to the camp.

According to reports, the IDPs are from various communities including Adunu, Beni, Kabula, Zazzaga, Kazai, Fuka, Nanati and Kwagana.

However, responding to the plea, the Niger State Commissioners of Internal Security, and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar, said the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, have already been directed to provide relief materials to the victims.

have done.

“We demand full explanation for the delay in evacuation of Nigerians, mostly northerners, from Sudan while those trapped in Ukraine were treated with sense of urgency and responsibility.

“We urge more action by Nigeria as the mother of Africa in managing the conflict in Sudan and not to abandon a sister African nation to the machinations of evil foreign powers.

“We call the attention of Nigeria and other leading African nations that in the current escalation of conflict in the Sudan, silence has become complicity and inaction has become no longer an option.”

The group further stated that:

“We find it disturbing that the Federal Government of Nigeria should afford to fail once again, in the statutory responsibility of protecting Nigerians at home in Nigeria and abroad.

“We are thus worried because a majority of the stranded Nigerians in Sudan are northern Nigerians which perhaps explains the levity and condescension with which the federal authorities are handling the situation.

“A responsible and responsive government would by now have reached out to the authorities in Cairo and Addis Ababa to secure easy passage for the stranded Nigerians who have managed to arrive at their boarders.”