It’s a homecoming year! IDPs will return home in 2016 – Buhari

According to President Muhammadu Buhari, persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency will begin to return to their home communities in 2016.

President Buhari said this, Wednesday, while addressing a delegation from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) led by former British Foreign Minister, Mr. David Miliband.

While pledging his administration’s commitment to facilitating the quick resettlement of the displaced persons, the president also urged the IRC and other international agencies to work with the Presidential Committee on the North-East and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

“In 2016, the return of the IDPs will start in earnest. They will return to their communities to meet destroyed schools and other infrastructure which have to be rebuilt,” the president said.

Buhari said there was an urgent need for support in the areas of agricultural inputs, health, nutrition, water, and sanitation.

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Miliband, in response said the IRC would intensify its ongoing work in Nigeria. The committee has, so far, assisted over 350,000 displaced persons, mainly in Adamawa and Borno states.

He also called for an increased security presence in recovered towns and territories, saying that most prospective returnees still feared for their safety on their return home..