No fewer than 40,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have left their various camps in Nasarawa State for their ancestral homes.
The Executive Secretary Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency (NASEMA), Mr Zachary Zamani-Allumaga, stated this to reporters in Lafia, the state capital, yesterday.
Zamani-Allumaga said the IDPs were products of humanitarian crises ranging from farmers’-herders’ and communal crises, among others.
The executive secretary listed Awe, Obi, Doma, Keana, Toto, and Lafia local government areas as some of the areas that had recorded greater number of humanitarian crises in the state.
The total number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) recorded across the state last year, is “47, 675.
“Out of this figure, over 40,000 IDPs have returned home, leaving only a few in their various camps across the state,” he said.
Zamani-Allumaga praised Governor Abdullahi Sule for giving adequate attention to the plights of the IDPs and other citizens in the state.
“I commend Governor Abdullahi Sule for giving adequate attention to the plights of IDPs in the state.
“He has provided relief materials to the victims of humanitarian and other forms of crises across the state.
“And this has improved the standard of living of the IDPs,” he said.
Allumaga also urged farmers-herders and other people of the state to live in peace and tolerate one another irrespective of their cultural, religious and political affiliations.
The executive secretary also urged the people of the state to always expose the criminally-minded people, especially the youth, for peace to reign.