We Will Help IDPs To Return Home – Gen. Musa

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has assured  Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of its committedness to guarantee their harmless instrumentality to ancestral communities.

Chief of Defence Staff  Gen. Christopher Musa gave the assurance astatine the Durumi IDP Camp successful Abuja during an outreach organised to people the International Day of Peace yesterday.

The CDS who was represented by the Chief of Defence Civil-Military Relations, Rear Adm. Olusanya Bankole said the equipped forces had intensified operations to wide terrorists and different transgression elements from affected communities, stressing that beyond battlefield victories, the subject remained committed to quality security, peacebuilding and development.

“Security is not lone astir defeating terrorists,

it is besides astir nutrient security, health, acquisition and the close to unrecorded with dignity. These palliatives are a impermanent alleviation arsenic we enactment to instrumentality families safely to their homes,” helium said.

The CDS urged women and children successful the campy to clasp bid and unity, noting that without stableness determination could beryllium nary sustainable development.

“We are soldiers and we tin fight, but what we privation is peace. We privation Nigerians to spot america arsenic partners successful progress, not adversaries,” helium added.

Also speaking, the lawman director, Defence Gender Desk, Flight Lt. Ayaka Kotso, sensitised campy residents connected the dangers of cause abuse, home unit and antagonistic coping mechanisms, peculiarly among youths.

Kotso said the subject was not lone warring wars but besides promoting consciousness connected societal issues that undermine peace, urging the displaced persons to debar behaviours that could worsen their vulnerability.

The managing director, Rapid Broadcasting Network, Faith Dafe, represented by Mr Godwin Amunde, pledged continuous concern with the equipped forces successful advocacy and consciousness campaigns.

Dafe said the media had a work to amplify the voices of displaced persons and propulsion for stronger enactment from authorities and planetary partners.

According to her, bid and reintegration cannot beryllium achieved without sustained collaboration betwixt the information forces, humanitarian actors, and the media.

Coordinator of Abuja IDP camps, Malam Idris Halilu, commended the subject for its interventions, describing the outreach arsenic a morale booster for displaced families.

He appealed to the national authorities and donor agencies to put much successful rebuilding destroyed communities, schools and healthcare facilities to facilitate sustainable resettlement.

He stressed that the IDPs were anxious to instrumentality location but needed assurance of information and basal amenities to restart their lives.

The lawsuit featured organisation of food, covering and schoolhouse supplies to women and children successful the camp, arsenic good arsenic aesculapian enactment and counselling.