Zamfara: IDPs call for more efforts to tackle insecurity
The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Zamfara State has called on Government at all levels and security agencies to maximize efforts towards addressing the dwindling security challenges facing the state.
The IDPs made the call in Gusau in an interactive session with Non Governmental Organisations: #Secureourlives in collaboration with Boabab for Women’s Human Rights.
Speaking on behalf of the victims at the event, Rabi Yakubu from Gidan Fako Community in Gusau LGA said they were displaced from their homes when gunmen attacked their community and killed her husbands and some of their family members.
“I was left with three male and females children, since then we have been living in uncompleted building in Gusau town and its and environs.
“There are several female headed IDPs households scattered in various across the state.
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“Some of us are living in IDPs camp while some are living in host communities in incomplete buildings”, She said.
“Majority of us, we left our villages we left stranded we use to go out with our children and beg for food, because our husbands could not go to farms due to insecurity.
“We are appealing to government at all levels and security agencies to improve security especially in the rural communities so as to we can go back to our homes”, Rabi Yakubu explained.
In her remarks, one of the female headed IDPs households at Tsunami IDP camp, Gusau, Bayi Rabi’u commended the NGOs for their concerns to them.
“We appreciate your consideration to us. we are delighted for giving us opportunity to express our experience and advises you gave to using how to improve our lives.
Earlier, in her opening remark on behalf of the two NGOs, the Baobab Coordinator in the state, Hajiya Rabi Ibrahim Gusau said the event was organised to provide opportunity for women across the country to share their experiences relating to insecurity such as kidnapping, violence, rape, murder assult, armed rubbery among others.
She said the event was also aimed at documenting women’s experience of insecurity across the country, amplifying them with aim of exerting them for improved security for Nigerians.
NAN reports that at the event, various issues concerning insecurity and conditions of the IDPs were discussed.
The IDPs unanimously agreed to call on government to provide solutions to improve security in the country.
They also appealed to government to provide urgent support in addressing various socio economic challenges affecting them.
