The government of Benue State has issued a warning to citizens not to steal food and aid meant for herdsmen attack victims in the state’s camps for internally displaced people, or IDPs.
The appeal was made by James Iorpu, executive secretary of the State Emergency and Management Agency, SEMA, during the normal monthly distribution exercise in Makurdi.
The relief supplies, according to Iorpu, are not narcotics that ought to be snatched and taken.
According to OBASANJO NEWS24, 14 registered IDP camps were given beds, soap, and detergents, as well as non-food products such red and vegetable oils, salt, sugar, rice, beans, noodles, and garri.
In order to ease the suffering of additional displaced people while they wait to be resettled, the relief supplies were also provided to other facilities for persons of concern.
Aondowase Kunde, the commissioner for disaster and humanitarian affairs, also gave the IDPs assurances about the government’s intention to resettling them quickly.
He gave the people of Benue the assurance that the administration was reviving their socioeconomic circumstances with ease.
In order to determine the precise number of IDPs in Benue, certain international organisations were conducting biometric exercises in partnership with the state administration and other partners, Kunde informed the public.
