IDPs: Dogara calls on international communities to redeem pledges

THE Speaker House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has urged international communities to redeem their commitment to Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to avert starvation and dehumanization in the camps.

Dogara made the call on Monday in Abuja when the President of Italian Chambers of Deputies, Mrs Laura Boldrini, led a delegation on a working visit to him.

He called on countries and donor agencies to address trans-border crimes, terrorism and migration by building strategic economic partnership aimed at ensuring prosperity for the largest number of people.

Dogara said that while the world had recognized terrorism as global challenge, collective efforts should be geared towards checking the menace.

Commending the Italian Government for its support toward the fight against terrorism in Nigeria, he appealed to the countries and international organizations that pledged assistance to the IDPs to fulfil such pledges.

Later at the New Kuchigoro IDPs camp in the Federal Capital Territory, where the speaker took the visitors on inspection, Boldrini promised to sink a borehole and provide an electricity- generating set for the camp.

She expressed her country’s readiness to foster stronger bilateral cooperation with Nigeria “to boost trade, parliamentary and security relations between the two countries’’.

He commended the Federal Government for the release of more of the kidnapped Chibok girls and appealed for more education of the girl-child.