‘Return IDPs to their ancestral homes’ — Benue Bishop tells authorities

The Bishop of the Makurdi Diocese, Most Rev. Wilfred Anagbe, has warned authorities astatine each levels of authorities against adopting resettlement arsenic a lasting solution for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) successful Benue State.

Speaking astatine the 2026 Cathedradicum held astatine St. Theresa’s Catholic Church successful Makurdi, the cleric stressed that displaced persons successful the authorities bash not necessitate relocation to caller settlements but should alternatively beryllium assisted to instrumentality to their ancestral lands, wherever they tin resume their farming activities.

According to him, “the lone durable and sustainable solution the IDPs request is to instrumentality them backmost to their ancestral homes, which helium said authorities astatine each levels has the capableness to bash by providing capable security, particularly astatine the borderline areas, to guarantee the information of the returnees.”

He explained that astir each the displaced persons are farmers whose livelihoods beryllium connected entree to their farmlands, arguing that relocating them elsewhere would not code their economical realities.

He questioned the practicality of resettlement, noting that specified an attack would permission their ancestral communities abandoned and susceptible to concern by attackers.

The Bishop besides decried what helium described arsenic attempts to distort the communicative surrounding the killings successful Benue and different parts of the state for idiosyncratic oregon governmental gains.

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