Nigeria has 2.09 Displaced Persons due to insurgency

Nigeria has 2.09 Displaced Persons due to insurgency - Dikongue

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Angele Dikongue- Atangana has stated that the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria due to insurgency is 2.09 million.

She also stated the latest displacement tracking matrix report of August 2016 placed Benue State as having only about 30,000 displaced persons, while in April the number was as high as 106,074.

She disclosed this during the handover and commissioning of Daudu Shelter Project for displaced persons in Guma local council of the state.

She said:
“Taking an average of monthly figure from April to August 2016, outside of the North East of Nigeria, Benue has the highest number of IDPs. Twelve out of 23 councils in the state had suffered or are suffering from varying impacts of displacement,”

She disclosed that the records on ground shows that from 2013 to August 2016, Benue had experienced between 60 and 65 attacks by herdsmen.
Atangana stressed that UNHCR had been working with Benue State since 2007 when Camerounian refugees were settled at Ityav in Kwande.
Dikongue stated that one of the objectives of providing these amenities was to assist the displaced persons to be reintegrated into the society.

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