Speaking yesterday while visiting a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp at Uhogua in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, Hon Dogara said Nigerian should be grateful President Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) won the last elections. He added that had this not happened, millions of Nigeria would have ended up in IDP camps like those in Uhogua.
Hon Dogara assured the refugees that the House of Representatives was doing everything possible to ensure the quick passage of a law that will establish the North East Development Commission to look after them. He also called on the federal government to immediately convene an international donor conference aimed at raising funds for IDPs across the country.
While at the camp, Hon Dogara donated various food items to the refugees accompanied by the lawmaker representing Ovia federal constituency, Hon Omosede Igbinedion. Also on his entourage were Hon EJ. Abonnayima and Hon Jubril Satimari, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Disaster Management.
Hon Dogara said: “Let me say that we are doing everything possible on the part of the government to see that peace returns to affected communities. Apart from the war against terrorism, in the House of Representatives, we are trying to pass a law that will establish the North East Development Commission.
"If that happens, it means that we are going to have funds that will be used to rebuild the communities where you come from as soon as the war is over. Apart from that, there is also a provision in the budget meant to cater for IDPs and that is to say that government has not forgotten about you."
He thanked God for his intervention in Nigeria's affairs, as he brought about a change in government. According to the speaker, if Nigeria had continued like before, probably the Boko Haram fighters would reach places like Jos and then Nigeria would have thousands and millions of IDPs.
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