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IDPs- We want to go back to our villages

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All Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)  in Zangon Kataf, Chikun, Kajuru and Brinin Gwari  have cried out to government at all levels to come intervene in their matter as they want to return to their villages.

It was gathered that most of the displaced persons from villages of Malmo, Garu, Gbagyi Rumana and Badna in Birnin Gwari LGA, and Ungwan Boka, Araha 1 and 2 in Kajuru LGA, have been displaced for about two years now.

Those from Birnin Gwari and part of Chikun Local Government Areas are still at the Ungwan Zwahu IDPs camp in Gonongora while those from Kajuru Local Government Area have started going back to their destroyed communities.

In Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, the displaced persons are at Samaru Kataf, Zonkwa, while some have relocated to their relatives in other places, leaving their destroyed villages for fear of the unknown.

A Non-Governmental Organisation, known as Resilient Aid and Dialogue Initiative (RADI), has been supplying them food and clothes.

Speaking, the IDPs said that they ran away from their communities when attacks started from 2019, stated their desires to happily go back if the abandoned communities could fully be secured.

According to a father of five, “We want to go back to our farms, instead of waiting like beggars for people to come and bring food to us.”

Speaking at both IDP camps, co-founders of RADI, Reuben Buhari and Alheri Magaji, who led other volunteers to share out relief materials to Goningora camp, Rimau centre, among other camps, observed that the plight of the IDPs requires urgent help from the government and other individuals.

They noted that at the harmattan season with all its attendant discomfort, the people are in dire need and most especially would want to go back to their destroyed villages if they can be secured, adding that their urgent need now is food, clothing and proper shelter.

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country’s borders

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