SEMA: Benue needs ₦500 million monthly for upkeep of two million displaced persons

“Fortunately Governor Samuel Ortom has been relentless not only in working and ensuring that he mobilizes Benue SEMA on a monthly basis to respond to some of the basic needs of the IDPs, but also ensuring that in other areas of human endeavor he works to ensure that the lives of Benue citizens are actually better.

“The situation we have in our hands is not only humanitarian, in most of the communities that they attacked they also destroyed the infrastructure, farmlands, crops schools, markets, churches and even bridges so as to make it difficult for security agencies to access the attacked communities and those they are occupying.

“So it is difficult for the government to return the IDPs. And this has been in existence for over four years since 2018 but we will not be tired of talking about this. Some people who want to be mischievous try to compare the humanitarian situation in Benue state to what is happening in Borno state.

“It is unfortunate to make that kind of comparison because there is no basis for it. Benue State has been neglected, the IDPs have been abandoned by the Federal Government; and indeed the challenge at hand is very huge that it cannot be left to the Benue State government alone. “Whereas in Borno state, Governor Zulum enjoys tremendous support from the Federal Government and over 200 humanitarian partners as we speak today are supporting Borno state government. All roads lead to Borno to the neglect of the humanitarian crisis in Benue state. So there is no basis for the comparison. Even at that our Governor is not tired, he has remained resolute and stood firm to beat his cheat that even if the Federal Government does not come here, the Almighty God is with him.

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