The Benue State Government, on Tuesday, called on former Minister of Defence, Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), to help interface with the Federal Government to make sure displaced persons return back to their ancestral homes.
The Executive Secretary of State Emergency and Management Agency, Dr. Emmanuel Shior, who received the Victims’ Support Fund, a foundation headed by Danjuma in Makurdi, noted that the enduring solution to is to allow the displaced persons in the state return to their ancestral home.
Shior lamented the massive destruction caused to infrastructures like roads, bridges, markets, schools, hospitals, and farms.
He said, “What the IDPs want now is not relief materials but an enduring solution to their problem to
return to their ancestral homes.
