Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the North-Eastern part of the country residing in a camp in Jos, the Plateau State capital, have been given notice to quit the camp.
The over 200 persons, who are mostly orphans, lost their parents in the wake of the insurgency that has bedeviled the North-Eastern region and are being sheltered by the House of Recab, located around Liberty Boulevard, in Jos South LGA.
This was disclosed on Tuesday by the General Overseer of the camp, Sam Akawuka, when a foundation that specializes in empowering children, Greater Tomorrow Children Fund, visited the IDPs.
Akawuka expressed worry over the threat to sack them from the camp.
According to him, “The owner of the property had asked us to either buy it for N60 million or quit before the end of December.”
He called on government at all levels and well-meaning individuals to come to the aid of the children, by making contributions so that the IDPs would continue to live in the camp.
In his remarks while presenting relief materials, the founder of Greater Tomorrow Children Fund, Paul Okoku, urged the Plateau State government and well-meaning individuals to assist the children.
Okoku said, “Please for the sake of these children concerted effort need to made by government at all levels and well meaning citizens salvage these children.
“These children are our future leaders please let’s take issues that concerns them with all seriousness, as posterity will judge us if we do not intervene.”
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