The Chairman of the committee, Senator Yusuf Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Friday in Abuja on the outcome of his panel members’ recent visit to the North-East geopolitical zone.
He noted with concern that Nigeria might witness a major crisis from the IDPs, who were mostly orphans below the age of 18, if nothing was done to get them back to their villages “We cannot sustain spending N5bn a month to take care of these people. We cannot continue to believe that the IDP syndrome should continue. We must exit it at one time or the other. It is a sad thing.
Yusuf added, “The people in the IDP camps want to go back to their homes and there is no reason why they shouldn’t go back.
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