The chairman, Bauchi State Internally Displaced Persons has said, about 54,000 persons are now stranded and languishing in poverty.
Alhaji Shehu Buba told DAILY POST in an interview in Bauchi, saying its members are passing through untold hardship in an attempt to survive the current challenges of food scarcity.
Buba regretted that many IDPs are targets of displacement by landlords who are unable to settle rents of their apartments.
According to him, since the intervention of presidential committee on north east, IDPs have not benefited any gesture from the federal, state and local governments.
“We are worried that lack of food scarcity has hit IDPs irrespective of our locations in Bauchi state and our children cannot go to school and we always contribute money to settle hospital bills of our members to save life,” said Buba.
The chairman had urged federal government to toe a path of honour and intervene in IDPs case especially those ravages by book haram crisis
“We learn that federal government has since last year June 2017 mobilized food stuffs to usin Bauchi but till date, no distribution is being effected instead the commodity is re bagged for sale on public market by government officials following recent arrest of some culprits,” Buba lament.
The chairman then urged the federal government to address the incessant attacks on innocent targets by insurgents, especially schools in north east.
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