Nyok|6 July 2018
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bakassi, Cross River State have expressed their gratitude to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over the gesture it demonstrated Monday/Tuesday this week where food items worth millions of Naira and undisclosed amount of cash donations where given to them, in Cross River NegroidHaven can report.
They expressed their gratitude through the National Coordinator of Bakassi IDPs camps, Prince Ashton Joseph Inyang who said pent up aspirations had become a reality. According to him, 'We're happy that stories said as framed is today a reality. Many agencies have come here to ask our problems but never returned but we're very grateful that the NDDC is here today to identify with us.
What the NDDC has done today portrays an exhibition to all the camps. They have done so much and we're exceptionally grateful to them'.
The NDDC through its Directorate of Education, Health and Social Services has donated food items worth millions of Naira as well as undisclosed amount of money to the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Cross River State.
Speaking, the NDDC Chairman, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba said the gesture was inline with the commission's commitment to the wellbeing of people of the region.
Ndoma-Egba, represented by his Communication aide, Mrs. Clara Braide said, 'We are here to identify with the plight of the IDPs in Cross River State. They wrote to us requesting for this and we responded because we're always ready to stretch our hands of love to them. As an interventionist agency, we will continue to support them.
'The President Muhammadu Buhari administration is very committed to the peace and wellbeing of the Niger Deltans and we will continue to work to ensure that peace return to every community within the region'.
The Chairman added that, 'This is just one of the things we have in stock for them. We understand their many challenges therefore we are saying that the commission under me will continue to support them because the government of the day is very empathetic towards the Region and it's People'.
On his part, the camp Leader, Moses Bassey decried that the camp was lacking basic social amenities like school, hospitals, amongst others.
'We thank the NDDC for the visit but we have many other problems. It is our desire that this support should also expand to other areas like organizing skills acquisition training for us because the government has stopped training us.
'Also, we have serious accommodation problems. We're about 4,715 in this camp and out of the 300 housing units built for us by government, only about 200 were completed. So, imagine 4,715 people living in 200 houses', he said.
Bassey added that, 'I want to appeal to government to resume the conditional cash transfer which has since been stopped. Here, we don't have light, no water, hospital and there's complete absence of security. We need government to help us address these things'.
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