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UN Partners Borno Govt, NEDC To Resettle 2.2m IDPs In North-East

by Francis Okoye
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The United Nations has promised to partner Borno State government and the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) towards the resettlement as well as addressing the challenges of about 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the three North-East states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The Assistant Secretary General of the UN, Mr Robert Piper, who is also the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Internal Displacement, revealed the partnership on Tuesday when he led a UN delegation on a courtesy visit to the MD/CEO of the NEDC, Mohammed Alkali, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Mr. Piper said the essence of the visit was for the UN to learn how the state and the NEDC have handled the humanitarian crisis and see how it could support the state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, who has shown commitment to ensure that the citizens displaced mostly in 2011 by insurgency were resettled and reintegrated to their communities.

He emphasised that solution to displacement requires investment and that it was not something that happens overnight, stressing that displacement requires investment in infrastructure, health facilities that are functioning, return of persons displaced from schools, with teachers showing up in classrooms.

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“It is a long-term development enterprise not a short-term emergency work. To me NEDC is one of the instruments that holds the key. I believe you are a long-term investor after seeing your portfolio and plans, they are long-term structural business.

“When we think of the 2.2 million persons displaced in the North-East out of which 1.6 are from Borno State, we acknowledge that a lot of people are affected. They need to be on the move, they need to be reintegrated and join communities. We don’t invest exclusively in each family, but we lift the communities and neighbourhoods up.

“So, the investment benefit is not just to the 2.2 million displaced persons but to the communities where they live,” Piper said.

Responding, the MD/CEO of NEDC, Mohammed Alkali, said he was marvelled during a meeting between the UN and the Borno State overnor when he heard Mr Piper revealed the kind of vision and concerns the UN have for the IDPs.

Alkali said the visit of the UN delegation was not only about discussion on how the issues of the IDPs could be handled, but how to have sustainable approach with each other, adding that the interventionist Commission had already developed a masterplan for the North-East region.

“The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported us in providing technical support in drafting the masterplan. The first phase is recovery and stabilisation of the victims of the crisis. We also, among others, have what we call the renewal phase, which focuses on resettled renewal,” the NEDC boss said.


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