THE Federal Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, says at least three million people had been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency and other social strifes in the country.
Sulaiman-Ibrahim, who disclosed this yesterday during the defence of the agency’s 2022 budget at the House of Representatives, also revealed that more than 500,000 Nigerians were awaiting repatriation from Chad, Cameroon, Cameroon, Libya, and other countries.
She said: “Due to the current unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Nigerian and the alarming growth rate of displacement, the number of IDPs had increased in the past one year by about one million causing the number of displaced persons in Nigeria to rise to a frightening three million.
“Nigeria is also host to about 73, 000 refugees from 23 countries with over 500, 000 Nigerians awaiting repatriation from Chad, Cameroon, Cameroon, Libya, and other countries.
“We know that data is very scarce in this area of work we do but we are still working on ensuring that we have accurate data that we can properly reference but whatever we have we would present based on the figures that I have given.”
